ECE Annual Report 2010-2011 - Department of Electrical and ...

Newark College 

of Engineering 

Department of Electrical and 

Computer Engineering 

Annual Report 

2010 -2011

New Jersey Institute of Technology 

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Annual Report 2010-2011 

©2012, New Jersey Institute of Technology 

This report provides a description of the instructional and 

research activities of the Department of Electrical & 

Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology 

during the 2010-2011 academic year. Instructional activities 

are reported from the Fall 2010 through Summer 2011 

semesters while scholarly activities and budget information 

are reported from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011. 

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s policies provide 

for equal opportunity and affirmative action in 

employment and admission to all programs of the University. 

For more information or to download this report as a PDF 

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Message from the Chair 

Welcome to the 2010-2011 Annual Report of the Department of Electrical 

and Computer Engineering (ECE) at New Jersey Institute of Technology. 

Our department with nearly 40 faculty and staff members offers strong 

undergraduate and graduate education and research programs. The ECE 

Department is known for its student-centered and practice-oriented 

education; we are committed to provide an outstanding educational 

experience to our students and prepare them for the highest personal and 

professional achievements. Our state-of-the-art teaching and research 

laboratories are designed to train the future workforce and meet the 

challenges of existing and emerging technologies of the 21st century. 

The faculty's research activities span all major areas of electrical and computer engineering, including 

signal and image processing, intelligent systems, communication systems and information theory, systems 

and controls, computer architecture, power systems, renewable energy, nanoscale electronic and photonic 

devices. Our students have exciting opportunities to participate in our department's research projects as well 

as in various activities sponsored by the IEEE and other professional societies. Several research centers and 

laboratories provide a unique blend of resources and facilities to pursue research at the cutting edge of 

technology in active collaboration with leading industries. Our faculty research is supported by federal and 

state funding agencies (NSF, DOD, DOE, NJ CST, etc.) and industry as well (IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, 

Samsung). 

Our location in a major metropolitan area offers unique opportunities for students to engage in co-op 

programs, internships, and research at many academic, industrial and government laboratories and research 

centers located in the New York City-New Jersey area. 

With approximately 600 undergraduate and more than 300 graduate students, we are one of the largest 

academic departments within the Newark College of Engineering. Our alumni find themselves in high 

demand for positions in corporate, government and education institutions. We are committed to bringing 

our academic and research programs to the next level of national and international recognition. 

I invite you to learn more about our department and the exciting experiences that await you here at ECE. 

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Leonid Tsybeskov 

Department Chair 

December 2011

CONTENTS 

3 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR 

5 FACULTY AND STAFF 

5 Faculty 

25 Staff 

27 Faculty/Staff Awards and Honors 

31 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM 

31 Undergraduate Student Awards 

33 Undergraduate Course and Program Development 

36 Undergraduate Enrollment 

37 Undergraduate Courses 

38 Undergraduate Instructional Laboratories 

40 IEEE Student Branch 

41 GRADUATE PROGRAM 

41 Graduate Student Awards 

42 Ph.D. Dissertations 

43 Graduate Degrees Awarded 

44 Graduate Enrollment 

44 Graduate Courses 

46 RESEARCH 

46 Research Areas 

47 Laboratories and Affiliated Research Centers 

55 Major Grants 

55 ECE Faculty as Principal Investigator Awards 

57 ECE Faculty as Co-Principal Investigator Awards 

57 Faculty Patents and Patent Disclosures 

59 ECE Senior Design Workshop 

59 ECE Colloquia and Seminars 

62 ECE INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD 

62 GIFTS AND DONATIONS TO THE ECE DEPARTMENT 

63 FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES 

72 DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION AND COMMITTEES 

74 IN MEMORIAM… 

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Faculty and Staff 

Core Faculty 

Ali Abdi 

Associate Professor 

Digital communication and propagation modeling in wireless 

channels (underwater and RF), channel and parameter 

estimation techniques, blind modulation recognition, systems 

biology, molecular networks and cell signaling 

PhD, University of Minnesota, 2001 

2010 IEEE Region 1 Award for His Outstanding 

Leadership and Contributions in Underwater Acoustic 

Communications 

2009 New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Innovators 

Award for a Novel Cross-Disciplinary Engineering- 

Biology Invention 

2009 IEEE Region 1 Award for Outstanding 

Leadership and Contributions in Underwater Acoustic 


2008 New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Innovators 

Award on Underwater Acoustic Communication 

2006 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award in the 

Category of Excellence in Team, Interdepartmental, 

Multidisciplinary, or Non-Traditional Teaching 

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Ali Akansu 

Professor 

Signal and transform theories, and applications in financial 

engineering, next generation internet, wireless 

OFDM/CDMA communications and RF engineering 

PhD, Polytechnic University,1987 

2008 IEEE Fellow

Nirwan Ansari 

Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies 

Broadband networks, multimedia communications, network 

security, and computational intelligence 

PhD, Purdue University, 1988 

2011 ECE Chair’s Recognition Award for 

Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program 

2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award 

2010 Best Paper Award for the co-authored paper 

presented at 2010 IEEE Global Communications 

Conference (GLOBECOM 2010) (one of eleven best 

paper awards among 4614 paper submissions) 

2009 IEEE Fellow 

2009 Best Paper Award for the co-authored paper 

presented at 2009 IEEE International Conference on 

Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IC- 

NIDC2009) 

2009 NCE Excellence in Teaching Award 

2008 IEEE MGA Leadership Award 

2008 NJIT Outstanding Professional Development in 

Teaching Award 

2007 IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award from the 

Princeton-Central Jersey Section 

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished 

Lecturer (2006- 2007; 2008-2009) 

1999 IEEE Region 1 Award 

1996 IEEE Communications Society, Chapter of the 

Award—served as the Chapter Chair 

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Yeheskel Bar-Ness 

Distinguished Professor; Foundation Chair of 

Communications & Signal Processing: Executive Director, 

Center for Communications & Signal Processing Research 

Design of OFDM, OFDM-MIMO, and MC-CDMA, joint 

design of physical and MAC layers, adaptive processing for 

UWB, adaptive array and spatial interference cancellation 

and signal separation for multiuser personal, indoor, and 

mobile wireless communication (PIMWC), general adaptive 

signal processing, surface acoustic wave applications, 

behavior of phase locked and frequency locked loops under 

interference, the use of chirp transform in analog signal 

processing and applications for spread spectrum signals 

� PhD, Brown University, 1969 

� 2010 Communication Theory Technical Committee 

Service Award 

� 2009 Recipient of IEEE Communication Theory 

Technical Committee Service Award 

� 2008 Recipient of Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award 

� 2006 Selected as the NJ 2006 “Inventor of the Year” 

for “system and method to enhance wireless/mobile 

communications” 

� 2005 Recipient of IEEE Communications Society 

Publications Exemplary Service Award 

� 1991 Recipient of NJIT Harlan J. Perlis Research 

Award 

� 1989 IEEE FELLOW - “For contribution to the 

advancement of coherent communications and 

array processing for interference cancellation” 

� 1974 Kaplan Prize - Awarded by the Government of 

Israel to the ten best technical contributions

John Carpinelli 


Interconnection networks for multiprocessor systems and 

switching systems, improved routing algorithms, faulttolerant 

hardware and software, and optimizing fault-tolerant 

network performance under no-fault conditions. Engineering 

education research includes the development of educational 

software, pre-engineering curricula, and using robotics with 

standards-based lesson plans to incorporate engineering into 

middle and high school science, technology, pre-engineering, 

and mathematics curricula 

� PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1987 

� 2008 Outstanding Honors Faculty Award, Albert 

Dorman Honors College, NJIT 

� 2007 iNEER Recognition award, International 

Network for Engineering Education and Research 

� 2006 NJIT ECE Department Chair’s Recognition 

Award 

� 2005 NJIT ECE Department Chair’s Recognition 

Award 

� 2004 NJIT Master Teacher Award 

� 2004 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award (Team, 

Interdepartmental, Multidisciplinary, or Non- 

Traditional Teaching) 

� 2001 NCE Innovation in Education Award 

� 1999 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award (Upper 

Division Undergraduate Education) 

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Timothy Chang 

Distinguished Professor 

Intelligent systems, real-time computer control, 

distributed/resonant systems, robotics, high precision 

systems, web based decentralized control, and applications 

including biometrics and DNA microarrays 

� PhD, University of Toronto, Canada, 1989 

� 2011 ECE Chair’s Recognition Award for 

Outstanding Contributions to the ECE Department 

(Awarded Posthumously) 

� 2010 New Jersey Investors Hall of Fame Award for 

Distinguished Accomplishments and patents in the 

areas of Ultra High Precision Systems, Generic 

Systems, Robotics and Motion Control 

� 2010 NCE Board of Overseers Award for Excellence 

in Research at NJIT 

� 2008 Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching 

Excellence 

� 2007 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, NJ 

Research Council 

� 2007 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award, 

Outstanding Professional Development

Roy Cornely 


Novel field effect digital circuits and devices that exploit new 

circuitry concepts to lower power dissipation drastically 

(order of magnitudes) at the expense of speed 

� PhD, Rutgers University, 1972 

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Atam Dhawan 


Intelligent medical image analysis, medical imaging, multiband 

wavelets, 3-D image reconstruction, neural networks, 

adaptive learning, genetic algorithms, and pattern recognition 

� PhD, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1985

Bernard Friedland 


Control theory, especially methods for control of linear and 

nonlinear systems with data sources of multiple types; 

applications to friction modeling, compensation, traction 

control, rapid thermal processing, robotic vehicle navigation 

and control 

� PhD, Columbia University, 1957 

� Fellow IEEE 

� Fellow ASME 

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Hongya Ge 


Statistical and array signal processing; reduced-rank 

subspace methods; detection, estimation, and spectral 

analysis; adaptive transceiver design for communications; 

numerical analysis and approximation theory 

� PhD, University of Rhode Island, 1994

Haim Grebel 

Professor; Director, Electronic Imaging Center 

Nano-technology (e.g., graphene, carbon nanotubes, surface 

Plasmon lasers, nan-bio); Artificial Dielectrics (AD) for 

optical and microwave purposes including ultra short pulse 

antennas (USP antennas), and Infrared (IR) resonating 

structures for filter and spectral bench-top applications 

� PhD, The Weizman Institute of Science, Israel, 1985 

� 2011 NJIT Overseers Excellence in Research Prize 

and Medal 

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Richard Haddad 


QMF-wavelet filter realizations, properties, extensions, and 

implementation of Binomial Hermite filters for parallel 

processing; adaptive suband signal coding using variable 

tree structures; time-frequency localization and quantization 

effects in M-band structures; rank-order filters; special 

purpose adaptive subband filters; enhanced DCT algorithms 

� PhD, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1962 

� Member of Eta Kappa Nu 

� Member of Tau Beta Pi 

� Member of Sigma Xi

Alexander M. Haimovich 

Professor; Director, Center for Wireless 

Telecommunications 

MIMO and array processing for radar and communications, 

turbo-coding, space-time coding and ultra-wideband systems 

� PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1989 

� 2011 Named Ying Wu Endowed Chair in Wireless 

Telecommunications at NJIT 

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Edwin Hou 


High speed networks, ATM/IP integration, scheduling, 

genetic algorithms, neural networks, nonlinear optimization 

techniques, robotics, and infrared imaging 

� PhD, Purdue University, 1989 


Outstanding Contributions to the Undergraduate 

Program 

� 2009 NCE Excellence in Advising Award 

� 2008 NJIT Excellence in Service Award 

� 2004 NCE Outstanding Advisor Award 

� 2000 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award for 

Graduate Instruction

Jie Hu 

Assistant Professor 

Computer Architecture, high-performance low power 

microprocessor design, energy-efficient memory hierarchies, 

reliable power-aware systems design, reconfigurable 

computing architecture, and multiprocessor architecture 

PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2004 

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Walid Hubbi 


Engineering education and power system analysis; 

specifically, power system security, economic operation, 

distributed generation of electric power, and power system 

operation in a deregulated environment and incorporating 

technologies that can enhance the learning experience in the 

university 

PhD, The Queens University of Belfast, Great Britain, 1977

Jacob Klapper 


Phase-locked loops, principles and applications; noise in FM 

systems 

� PhD, New York University, 1965 

� NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award (Professional 

Development) 

� IEEE Region I Award for “New Technical Concepts 

in Electrical Engineering” 

� 1993-1995 IEEE Comsoc Distinguished Lecturer 

� 1987 IEEE Outstanding International Lecturer 

� IEEE-PTGVD Award for Transaction Paper 

� IEEE NY Section ComTech Commendation 

� Member of Eta Kappa Nu 

� Member of Tau Beta Pi 

� Member of Sigma Xi 

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Durga Misra 


Nanoelectronics: High-K gate dielectrics, Reliability of 

MOS gate oxide, Hot Carrier Effects, Interface state 

reduction through deuterium implantation, Si and SiGe 

photodetectors. VLSI Design: ASICs, VHDL, Network 

Architectures. Integrated sensors: Chemical Sensors and 

Sensor Networks, Interface circuits, Magnetic Field Sensors 

� PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada 

� 2008- 2010 Chair of Dielectric Science and 

Technology Division of ECE 

� 2006 Fellow of the Electrochemical Society 

� 2005 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award 

� 2005-2010 IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer

Edip Niver 


Wave propagation, antenna and microwave engineering, fiber 

optic communication systems, applications to biomedical and 

transportation systems, and numerical methods 

� PhD, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 1979 


Distinguished Progress in Teaching Excellence 

� 2003 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium Honored 

Pioneers in Microwave Engineering Award 

� 1991 The Robert W. Van Houten Award for 

Excellence in Teaching at NJIT 

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Raquel Perez-Castillejos 


The development of new approaches to cell and tissue 

biology based on the use of micro and nanotechnologies. 

Goals include: building tissue models that make it possible to 

mimic the complexity of the in-vivo cellular 

microenviroment and fabricating cellular and subcellular 

probes to interrogate cells as a part of a larger system 

� PhD, National Center of Microelectronics, Spain, 

2003

Roberto Rojas-Cessa 


High performance packet switching, fault tolerance and 

reliability, hardware implementation and VLSI 

� PhD, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 

2001 

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Jacob Savir 


Test generation, fault simulation, design for testability, 

computer-aided design, and built-in self-test 

� 2001 PhD, Stanford University, 1977 

� Teruhiko Yamada Memorial Reward 

� 1996 Best Panel/Panelist Award, VLST Test 

Symposium 

� 1996 IBM, Sixth Publication Achievement Award 

� 1995 IBM, Fifth Publication Achievement Award 

� 1994 IBM, Fourth Invention Achievement Award 

� 1993 IBM, Fourth Publication Achievement Award 

� 1993 IEEE Fellow 

� 1992 IBM, Third Publication Achievement Award 

� 1991 IBM, First Patent Application Award 

� 1991 Senior Member IEEE 

� 1990 IBM, First Publication Achievement Award 

� 1990 IBM, First Publication Award 

� 1987 IBM, Second Invention Achievement Award 

� 1983 IBM, First Invention Achievement Award 

� 1977-78 IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship 

� 1976-77 IBM Predoctoral Fellowship

Yun-Qing Shi 


Image/video processing, and their applications to industrial 

automation and biomedical engineering. Data hiding, image 

authentication, digital forensics, signal modulation 

recognition, and medical video compression 

� PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1987 

� 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for his 

research in Steganalysis, Digital Forensics and 

Security 

� 2005 Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to Multidimensional 

Signal Processing 

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Osvaldo Simeone 


Cross-layer analysis of wireless networks with emphasis on 

information-theoretic, signal processing and queuing aspects. 

Cognitive radio, cooperative communications, ad hoc, sensor, 

mesh and hybrid networks, distributed estimation and 

synchronization. 

� PhD, Polytechnico di Milano, Italy, 2005 


Distinguished Progress in Research

Kenneth Sohn 


Superconductors/superconducting devices and solid state 

devices 

� PhD, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1967 

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Marek Sosnowski 

Professor: Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies; 

Director, Ion Beam and Thin Film Lab 

Materials and structures for micro-electronic and optoelectronic 

applications, thin film deposition, ion beam 

modification of materials 

PhD, University of Warsaw, Poland, 1973 


Outstanding Contributions to the Undergraduate 

Program


Professor; Chair 

Group IV semiconductor nanostructures and devices; 

scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and STM-based 

spectroscopy; optical characterization including Raman 

scattering, photoluminescence and modulation spectroscopy; 

SiGe nanostructures for light emitters and optical 

interconnects 

� PhD, Odessa Mechnikov University, Ukraine, 1986 

� 2003 Fellow of the American Physical Society 

� 1999 Fellow of German Academic Exchange Service 

(DAAD) 

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Gerald Whitman 


Radiation, propagation and scattering of electromagnetic 

waves, specific applications include scattering from periodic 

and random rough surfaces; guidance and radiation from 

integrated dielectric structures; multiscattering in random 

media (vegetation) using transport theory; indoor radiowave 

propagation; transients in dispersive media; ray optics; and 

megamaterials 

PhD, Polytechnic University, 1969

MengChu Zhou 


Computer-integrated manufacturing, intelligent automation, petri nets, wireless network, networking security, protocol analysis, 

discrete event control and simulation, lifecycle engineering design, sensor network, and collaborative systems 

� PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990 

� 2011 Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 

� 2011 QSI Best Application Paper Finalist award for the Paper, “Modeling and Analysis of Dual-Arm Cluster Tools for Wafer 

Fabrication with Revisiting” at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering 

� 2010 Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society 

� 2005-2011 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society 

� 2004 Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society 

� 2003 Fellow, IEEE (for contributions to Petri nets and their applications) 

� 2000 Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 

� 1996 Harlan J. Perlis Award for Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology 

� 1994 National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award 

� 1994 Computer-Integrated Manufacturing University-Lead Award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers 

Sotirios Ziavras 


Chip multiprocessors, advanced computer architecture, 

system-on-a-chip design, parallel processing and 

supercomputing, embedded systems, reconfigurable 

computing, VLSI design and FPGA-based system 

prototyping 

� PhD, George Washington University, 1990 

� 2011 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award in the Category of Excellence in Graduate Instruction 

� 1991 NSF Research Initiation Award 

� Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, 

Who's Who in the East, Who’s Who in American Education 

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Emeritus Faculty 

William Carr 

Professor Emeritus 

Electrical sensors, circuits and systems. MEMS sensors, especially inertial, infrared,thermal, 

microphonic. Silicon on insulator SOI materials, inertial measurement systems, navigation systems 

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1962 

Joseph Frank 

Associate Professor Emeritus 

Delta modulation, simulation of communication systems, phased locked oscillators, adaptive 

equalizers, spread spectrum and C3 systems 

PhD, Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1975 

Solomon Rosenstark 


Feedback amplifier theory, timing problems in computer circuitry and the clarification 

of communication theory 

PhD, New York University, 1966 

Andrew Meyer 


Automatic control theory and applications, nonlinear systems, biomedical system dynamics 

PhD, Northwestern University, 1961 

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University Lecturers 

Stewart D. Personick 

Senior University Lecturer 

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

2000 IEEE Lasers and Electrooptics Society/OSA John Tyndall Award 

1998 Career Achievement Award, Engineering Alumni of the City College of New York 

1992 Member of the National Academy of Engineering 

1888 Fellow of the Optical Society of America 

1984 IEEE Centennial Medal 

1983 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 

Arthur Glaser 

University Lecturer 

PhD, Columbia University 

Serhiy Levkov 

University Lecturer 

PhD, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, 1992 

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Adjunct Faculty 

Ahmed Abou-Alfotouh 

ECE 616 (Spring 2011) 

PhD, University of Kentucky, 2004 

Biao Cheng 

ECE 431, ECE 664 (Fall 2010) & ECE431 (Spring 2011) 

PhD, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2007 

Byron Chen 

ECE 645 (Fall 2010) & ECE 645 (Spring 2011) 

PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, 1993 

Hanyun Chang 

ECE 657 (Fall 2010) 

PhD, NJIT, 2010 

Mohammed Feknous 

ECE 252, ECE422 (Fall 2010) & ECE 372, ECE 414 

ECE422 (Spring 2011) 

MS, University of Missouri, 1979 

David Haessig 


D. Harrison 

ECE 395 (Spring 2011) 

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Hesuan Hu 

ECE 605, ECE612 (Fall 2010) & ECE 611 (Spring 2011) 

PhD, Xidian University, 2010 

Heechang Kim 


PhD, Polytechnic University, 1998 

Aleksandar Kolarov 

ECE783 (Fall 2010) & ECE 783 (Spring 2011) 

PhD, Rutgers University, 1993 

Hirayr Kudyan 


Serhiy Levkov 

ECE 232, ECE 271, ECE 443 (Spring 2011) 

PhD, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, 1992 

Robert Lopes 


Samuel Ludden 

ECE432 (Fall 2010) & ECE432 (Spring 2011) 

Haijun Pan 


Ratna Raj 

ECE405 (Spring 2011) 

Jack Richman 

ECE601 (Fall 2010) & ECE 601 (Spring 2011) 

Han Tao 

ECE 636 (Fall 2010)

Research Staff 

Name Title Advisor 

Agirman-Tosun, Handan Postdoctoral Researcher Haimovich 

Chen, Licong Visiting Scholar Shi 

Cheng, Biao Postdoctoral Researcher Chang 

Dong, Ziqian Postdoctoral Researcher Rojas-Cessa 

Gao, Shang Visiting Student Shi 

Hu, Hesuan Visiting Scholar Zhou 

Huang, Fangjun Visiting Scholar Shi 

Jiang, Xinghao Visiting Scholar Shi 

Li, Jian Visiting Student Shi 

Liu, Jin Research Scholar Zhou 

Meng, Peng Visiting Student Shi 

Ordeig, Olga Postdoctoral Fellow Perez-Castillejos 

Sajid, Imtiaz Visiting Scholar Ziavras 

Tapparello, Cristiano Research Associate Simeone 

Wang, Hong Research Associate Haimovich 

Wang, Shouguang Research Associate Zhou 

Wang, Shuai Postdoctoral Researcher Hu 

Wu, Weimin Visiting Scholar Zhou 

Yu, Lifang Visiting Student Shi 

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Administrative Staff 

Shivon Boodhoo 

Undergraduate Advisor and Curriculum Coordinator 

Tanita Evans 

Principal Clerk Stenographer 

Maureen Fagan 

Administrative Assistant for Program Development & 

Special Projects 

Barbara Faltz 

Secretarial Assistant III – Undergraduate Program 

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Anthony Lambiase 

Assistant to the Chair for Laboratories 

Joan Mahon 

Assistant to the Chair for Administration 

Marlene Toeroek 

Administrative Assistant – CWCSPPR 

Jacinta Williams 

Administrative Assistant – Graduate Program

Technical Staff 

Roberto Guerrero 

Senior Laboratory Technician 

Gil Hernandez 

Electronics Technician 

Arthur Pereira 

Principal Electronics Technician 

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Richard Mondalto 

Senior Lab Service Worker 

Hector Rivas 

Electronics Technician

Faculty/Staff Awards and Honors 

Faculty Awards and Honors 

Haim Grebel received the prestigious NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal awarded in 

recognition of a sustained record of contributions that has enhanced the reputation of NJIT. 

The NJIT Excellence in Research Prize and 

Medal is awarded in recognition of a 

This===== sustained record of contributions that has 

enhanced the reputation of NJIT. It was 

first awarded in 2008. 

HAIM GREBEL, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, works with the properties of 

artificial structures on the micron and nano-scales. The deposition of the super-thin and super-strong material graphene 

on various substrates and its implications for spectroscopic analysis has long been a focal point of Dr. Grebel’s work. 

He is currently working with colleagues on research that interest glycobiologists, who study sugars and the roles they 

play in biology. 

Dr. Grebel received both his MSc and PhD degrees in physics from The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He 

joined NJIT in 1987. Dr. Grebel is the author or the co-author of more than 90 scientific articles and has four patent 

awards. 

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Alexander Haimovich was named Ying Wu Endowed Chair in Wireless Telecommunications. 

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The Ying Wu Endowed Chair is 

supported by a gift of $1.5 million 

from Ying Wu, NJIT MS ’88. 

Founder of a highly successful 

telecommunications firm, China 

Capital Group, member of the 

think-tank Consultant Committee 

of the Overseas Chinese Affairs 

Office of the State Council, and 

senior consultant on the internet 

for the Shen Zhen City 

government, Mr. Wu is the 

recipient of numerous awards. In 

1998 Mr. Wu was recognized by 

Business Week as one of the top 

50 Stars of Asia in recognition of 

his efforts in averting a financial 

crisis in Asia. 

ALEXANDER HAIMOVICH, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently served as 

the Director of the New Jersey Center for Wireless Telecommunications, a state-funded consortium. Prior to this, he 

served in a variety of capacities in the industry including Chief Scientist of a consulting firm and senior staff consultant 

for AEL Industries. 

Dr. Haimovich received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, his MS in Electrical 

Engineering from Drexel University and his PhD degree in Systems from The University of Pennsylvania. He joined 

NJIT in 1989. 

Dr. Haimovich’s research interests focus on advanced radar, sensing, and communication systems including multipleinput 

multiple-output (MIMO) radar, geolocation, compressed-sensing for target localization, and signal design.

MengChu Zhou was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his 

distinguished contributions to Petri Nets, discrete event systems, and their applications to manufacturing, 

transportation, workflow, disassembly, web services, and software design. 

The American Association for the 

Advancement of Science (AAAS) 

is the world’s largest general 

scientific society, and publisher of 

the journal, Science. Founded in 

1848, AAAS includes 262 

affiliated societies and academies 

of science, serving 10 million 

individuals. Science has the 

largest paid circulation of any 

peer-reviewed general science 

journal in the world, with an 

estimated total readership of one 

million. 

Mengchu Zhou, professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, served as the Director of the MS 

Program in Computer Engineering and founding Director of the MS Program in Power and Energy Systems. He is the 

founding editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering and Eeditor of IEEE Transactions on 

Automation Science and Engineering. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2003. 

Dr. Zhou received his BS degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, MS degree 

from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, and PhD degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. 

He joined NJIT in 1990. 

Dr. Zhou contributed over 430 publications including 10 books, 200+ journal papers (the majority in IEEE 

Transactions), 200+ conference proceeding papers, and 18 book-chapters to his research areas. He has led or 

participated in over 40 projects funded by the NSF, DoD, NIST, State of New Jersey, and industry. 

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Ali Abdi received the IEEE 

Region 1 Award for his 

outstanding leadership and 

contributions in underwater 

acoustic communications. 

Nirwan Ansari’s paper, “HYMN 

to Improve the Longevity of 

Wireless Sensor Networks” was 

selected to receive the 2010 IEEE 

GLOBECOM Best Paper Award. 

Nirwan Ansari received the 2011 

ECE Chair’s Recognition Award 

for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate 

Program. 

Yeheskel Bar-Ness was selected as 

one of two recipients of the 

Communication Theory Technical 

Committee Service Award. 

Timothy Chang received a 

Special Award from the 

22 nd Annual New Jersey 

Inventors Hall of Fame 

Awards held in 2011 for his 

achievements in the areas 

of ultra-high precision 

systems, genetic systems, robotics and motion control. 

Timothy Chang received posthumously the 2011 

ECE Chair’s Recognition Award for Outstanding 

Contributions to the ECE Department. 

Haim Grebel received the 2011 NJIT Board of 

Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal. 

Edwin Sui Hoi Hou co-chaired 

the 34 th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 

held May 3-4 in Princeton. 

Yun Qing-Shi received the 2010 

Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award 

for his research in steganalysis, 

digital forensics and security. 

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Osvaldo Simeone received the 

2011 ECE Chair’s Recognition 

Award for Distinguished Progress 

in Research. 

Undergraduate Program. 

Marek Sosnowski received the 2011 

ECE Chair’s Recognition Award for 

Outstanding Contributions to the 

MengChu Zhou was named Distinguished 

Lecturer, IEEE Society of Systems, Man and 

Cybernetics. 

MengChu Zhou received the 2011 QSI Best 

Application Paper Finalist Award for the paper, 

“Modeling and Analysis of Dual-Arm Cluster Tools 

for Wafer Fabrication with Revisiting” by Y. Ziao, N. 

Wu and M.C. Zhou, at the 2011 IEEE International 

Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. 

MengChu Zhou received the 2010 Franklin V. Taylor 

Memorial Award from the IEEE Systems, Man and 

Cybernetics Society. 

Sotirios Ziavras received the 2011 

NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award 

in the category of Excellence in 

Graduate Instruction. 

Sotirios Ziavras co-chaired the 13 th IEEE 

International Conference on Computational Science 

and Engineering, December 2010 in Hong Kong.

Undergraduate Program 

Undergraduate Student Awards 

Julia Gayner, an ECE Major with a 4.0 GPA, was awarded a Tau Beta Pi Scholarship for 2011-12. 

Martha Molinini’s paper, “The BP Oil Spill: Containment Efforts and Ethical Considerations” was accepted 

for presentation at the American Society for the Engineering Education Middle Atlantic Section Conference 

held on April 29, 2011 in Farmingdale, NY. 

Faizan Naqvi received the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for his work on solar research. This scholarship 

recognizes the brightest young researchers in the nation. 

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Arlez Arellano received the 2011 ECE Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Student Service Award 

for his tireless efforts to help improve the ECE Department and the student body at large. Ms. Boodhoo, who 

presented Arlez with the award , cited Arlez’s willingness to help at any opportunity that came up and that he 

always went above and beyond what was expected from a student. 

Karanvir Bhalla, a junior in Computer Engineering and a transfer student from India, received a GPA of 

4.0 for the academic year. 

Oscar Gonzalez received the Outstanding Sophomore Class Award for 2010-2011 from NJIT’s Campus 

Center. 

Tom Matthew received the Wier Scholarship, the John T. Wilner Scholarship and a FDN scholarship. 

Damir Azdajic, Samer Hamad and Leonid Pugliese (Advisor Dr. Edwin Hou) received Second Place in the 2011 Senior 

Design Project Design Poster Presentation for their project, “3D Stereoscopic Camera With Scene Reconstructions Software.” 

ECE Industry Advisory Board Member and NJIT alum Kevin 

Carswell pictured with Lihui Zhou, Amrit Ramjattan, Victor 

Bonachea and Eric Schrumpf, winners of the Timothy Chang 

Award for Project Innovation and Excellence. Their project, 

RAIDNet, a rapid accountability information deployment network 

designed to help keep track of first responders in an emergency 

situation, won first prize at the ECE Senior Design Project 

Workshop. 

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The IEEE Student Chapter received the 2011 Chair Recognition Award for Outstanding Student Organization. During the 

academic year the Chapter provided study sessions and held numerous focus seminars designed to help current students with the 

curriculum as well as obtain employment upon graduation. 

Undergraduate Course and Program Development 

The Undergraduate Program at The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is divided into two separate majors: 

Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. 

Electrical Engineering is a diversified profession concerned with the design and operation of the electrical devices and 

systems required by our technological society. These can range from the smallest microdevice to the largest power generator. 

Integrated circuits, computing, biomedical instrumentation, energy conversion, power generation and distribution, control 

systems, microprocessors and communications are just some of the fields open to the electrical engineer. NJIT Electrical 

Engineering (EE) students learn about devices and systems design and build upon this foundation when they select courses from 

various specialty areas. Further in-depth engineering study integrates their knowledge in the planning and completion of a design 

project. Our students are able to select from eight specialized areas with complementary laboratory courses in which hands-on 

experience is emphasized. 

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Areas of Specialization 

Communications Networks: The information revolution is built on an infrastructure of communications and computer networks. 

This infrastructure has the potential to drastically change the way we live and work. The communication networks track focuses 

on the analysis and design of wireless and wireline systems for information delivery. 

Telecommunications: Wireless Telecommunications is rapidly becoming one of the most rapidly developing and exciting fields 

in today’s technology. The Telecommunications track seeks to prepare individuals to contribute to the diverse fields of wireless 

communications. The systems elective focuses on wireless personal communications systems, while other electives cover a wide 

area of topics such as networks and optical communications. 

Controls: The mechanism of feedback pervades nature, science, and technology. The curriculum in control teaches how 

engineers can use the feedback mechanism to design systems for controlling a variety of dynamic processes, ranging from 

spacecraft, aircraft, and automobile emission systems to heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems. 

Computer Systems: The computer system courses provide an in-depth study of computer system organization and computer 

system design. Students study CPU design, control unit design, memory organization and I/O processing. 

RF/Microwave and Fiber Optics: This area concentrates on radio frequency (rf) microwave and lightwave technologies at the 

component and the system levels. Applications include communication systems (rf/microwave and fiber optics), remote sensing, 

radar, sensors, etc. 

Electronic and Photonic Devices: This area concentrates on newly emerging electronic and photonic technologies. This area 

includes modeling and design tools for a wide variety of devices, VLSI circuits, and optoelectronic systems. 

Bioelectronics Systems: This area concentrates on the bio-related areas in electrical engineering. The courses include medical 

imaging and instrumentation; modeling, simulation, and control of biological systems; biological related sensors and electronic 

systems. 

Power Systems: Electric power and energy systems are gaining importance as the society realizes that to maintain our standard of 

living, energy solutions must be found. The courses of this track survey the various energy resources and how to use them for the 

generation of electrical energy and introduce issues related to modeling and economics of a power system. The laboratory 

component includes electric power generation, connecting a generator to the grid as well as performing system studies using 

industry programs. 

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The Computer Engineering major provides a solid foundation in both computer software and hardware, and then builds on 

this knowledge through advanced technical tracks. Advanced courses give students broad knowledge in such areas as operating 

systems, software engineering and computer architecture, while technical tracks in the senior year provide in-depth knowledge in 

computer networking, advanced computer architecture or telecommunications. A strong laboratory sequence and capstone project 

develop strong design skills. Areas of specialization include: Computer Communications, Advanced Computer Systems and 

Bioelectronics. 

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Undergraduate Enrollment (Fall 2010) 

Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Total 

Freshmen* 67 70 137 

Sophomore* 68 49 117 

Junior 86 50 136 

Senior 108 56 164 

Totals 329 225 554 

*Students are not required to declare a major until their Junior year. 

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Undergraduate Courses 

Course 

Number 

Course Title Fall 2010 Spring 2011 

ECE101 Introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering Boodhoo 

ECE231 Circuits & Systems I Sohn Personick 

Personick Personick 

ECE231H Circuits & Systems I – Honors Personick Personick 

ECE232 Circuits & Systems II Glaser Levkov 

Simeone Simeone 

ECE232 H Circuits & Systems II – Honors Simeone Levkov 

Simeone 

ECE251 Digital Design Savir Savir 

Savir Savir 

ECE252 Microprocessors Hu 

Hu 

Feknous Hu 

ECE271 Electronic Circuits I Cornely 

Cornely 

Levkov 

ECE271H Electronic Circuits I – Honors Cornely Levkov 

ECE291 Electrical Engineering Lab I Misra Grebel 

Klapper Sohn 

Grebel 

ECE310 Work Experience Hou 

Sohn 

ECE321 Random Signals & Noise Ge 

Ge 

Ge 

Haddad 

ECE333 Signals & Systems Friedland Friedland 

Friedland 

ECE341 Energy Conversion Hubbi Hubbi 

ECE353 Computer Architecture & Organization Carpinelli 

ECE353H Computer Architecture & Organization – Honors Carpinelli 

ECE354 Digital Test Savir Savir 

ECE361 Electromagnetic Fields I Whitman Niver 

ECE362 Electromagnetic Fields II Niver Whitman 

ECE368 Signal Transmission Niver Niver 

ECE372 Electronics II Cornely Feknous 

ECE372H Electronics II – Honors Cornely 

ECE373 Electronic Circuits III Glaser 

ECE374 Electronic Devices I Tsybeskov Tsybeskov 

ECE392 Electrical Engineering Laboratory I Sohn Sohn 

Grebel Rossi 

ECE394 Digital Systems Laboratory Ziavras 

ECE395 Microprocessor Laboratory Shrirao 

D’Alessandro 

Beldianu 

ECE405 Electrical Engineering Principles Klapper 

Glaser 

ECE410 Work Experience II Hou 

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D’Alessandro 

Harrison 

Raj 

Personick 

Hou 

ECE414 Electrical & Computer Engineering Project I Friedland Feknous 

ECE416 Electrical & Computer Engineering Project II Sohn Sohn 

Sohn 

ECE421 Digital Data Communications Shi Shi 

ECE422 Computer Communications Networks Feknous Feknous 

ECE424 Optical Communications Networks Grebel 

ECE425 Wireless Communication Systems Feknous Abdi 

ECE429 Computer Communications Laboratory Rojas-Cessa Chen 

ECE431 Systems & Virtual Instrumentation Chang Chang 

ECE432 Control Systems Ludden Ludden 

ECE439 Control Systems Laboratory Shi, W. Shi, W. 

ECE442 Power Systems Hubbi 

ECE443 Renewable Energy Systems Levkov 

ECE449 Power Systems Laboratory Hubbi 

ECE451 Computer Systems Design Glaser

ECE452 Design Advances in Computer Architecture Ziavras 

ECE453 Introduction to Discrete Event Systems Gao 

ECE459 Advanced Computer Systems Design Lab Beldianu 

ECE461 Microwaves & Integrated Optics Whitman 

ECE462 RF/Fiber Optics Systems Manzhura 

ECE463 Optoelectronics 

ECE469 RF/Microwave & Optic Laboratory Niver 

ECE475 VLSI Semiconductor Circuits 

ECE477 Semiconductor Sensors & Bioelectronics Perez-Castillejos 

ECE494 Electrical Engineering Laboratory III Sosnowski Klapper 

ECE495 Computer Engineering Design Laboratory Hou Hou 

Undergraduate Instructional Laboratories 

Lab research expenditures approached $100,000.00 for updates and renovations. 

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IEEE Student Branch 

The NJIT Student Branch of the North Jersey Chapter of IEEE, one of the oldest at NJIT, became formally incorporated on 

January 2, 1963. Since that time, the Student Branch has tried to provide students with the means to success at NJIT, as well as 

in their professional future. This year has been another busy year for IEEE under the direction of President Percival Ngan – Fall 

2010 and President Jonathan Avila (Spring 2011), Vice President Roger Saborido, Treasurer Victor Bonachea and Secretary 

Amrit Ramjattan. Key events in 2010-2011 included the following: 

Presentation by Jim Anabwani, ECE NJIT alum on co-ops, internships and how to obtain a job 

MATLAB Tutorial Session – Clifford Hilaire 

MATLAB Tutorial Session – Dante Castillo 

Presentation by IBM on semiconductors in integrated circuits 

Focus Series Seminar – Power – Dr. Walid Hubbi, PSE&G, JCP&L 

Focus Series Seminar – Bioelectronics – Dr. Atam Dhawan 

Focus Series Seminar – Radio Frequency – Dr. Edip Niver 

Site Visit to PSE&G – Dr. Qamar Arsalan – Dr. Walid Hubbi 

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Graduate Program 

Graduate Student Awards 

Behzad Ahmadi – Advisor Dr. Durgamadhab Misra – 

was awarded the 2011 Hashimoto Fellowship. 

Amrita Banerjee – Advisor Dr. Haim Grebel - was 

awarded the 2011 Hashimoto Fellowship. 

Lin Cao – Advisor Dr. Rojas-Cessa – was awarded 

the 2011 Ockene Family Fellowship. 

Lin Cao – Advisor Dr. Rojas-Cessa – was awarded 

the 2011 Phonetel Fellowship. 

Chen Chen – Advisor Dr. Ali Abdi – was awarded 


Vlad Chiriac - Advisor Dr. 

Alexander Haimovich – was 

awarded the 2011 Ross 

Fellowship. 

Ciprian Comsa – Advisor Dr. Alexander Haimovich 

– was awarded the 2011 Ross Fellowship. 

Brian D’Alessandro – Advisor Dr. Atam Dhawan – 

was a finalist in the Student Paper Competition for the 

33 rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE 

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 

Tariq Elkourdi – Advisor Dr. Osvaldo Simeone – 

won the Best Poster Award at the 2011 Wireless and 

Optical Communications Conference (WOCC). 

Nil Garcia – Advisor Dr. Alexander Haimovich – was 

awarded the 2011 Ross Fellowship. 

Tao Han – Advisor Dr. Nirwan Ansari – was awarded 

the 2011 Hashimoto Fellowship. 

Tao Han – Advisor Dr. Nirwan Ansari – was awarded 


Fabio Ianello – Advisor Dr. Osvaldo Simeone – was 


Amir Laufer – Advisor Dr. Yeheskel Bar-Ness – was 

awarded the 2011 Bar-Ness Fellowship. 

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Amir Laufer – Advisor Dr. Yeheskel Bar-Ness – was 


Nilufa Rahim – Advisor Dr. Durgamadhab Misra – 

received a 10 month IBM Research Internship to work 

on Gate Dielectric Reliability. 

Nilufa Rahim – Advisor Dr. Durgamadhab Misra – 

received the 2010 Hashimoto Award for Best Doctoral 

Dissertation. 

Khondker Sakhin – Advisor Dr. 

Rojas-Cessa – was awarded the 

2011 Hashimoto Fellowship. 

Marco Rossi – Advisor Dr. 

Alexander Haimovich – was 

awarded the 2011 Ross 

Fellowship. 

Beldianu Spiridon – Advisor Dr. Sotirios Ziavras – 

was awarded the 2011 Ross Fellowship. 

Patchara Sutthiwan – Advisor Dr. Yun-Qing Shi – 

was awarded the 2011 Hashimoto Fellowship. 

Mustafa Torun – Advisor Dr. Ali Akansu – was an 

invited speaker at an IEEE ICASSP Conference in 

Prague. His talk was entitled “Risk Management for 

Trading in Multiple 

Frequencies.” 

Mustafa Torun – Advisor Dr. 

Ali Akansu – was an invited 

speaker at the IEEE CAMSAP 

Conference held in San Juan, 

Puerto Rico. His talk was 

entitled “On Epps Effect and 

Rebalancing of a Portfolio in Multiple Frequencies.” 

Mustafa Torun – Advisor Dr. Ali Akansu – 

published a paper in IEEE Signal Processing 

Magazine, the journal with the highest ISI impact 

factor amoung all electrical/engineering journals as of 

2010. The paper on “Portfolio Risk in Multiple 

Frequencies” was written with his advisor, Dr. 

Akansu.

Nicola Varanese – Advisor Dr. Yeheskel Bar-Ness - 

was awarded the 211 Ross Scholarship 

Nan Wang – received an ECE Fellowship 

Xiaoli Wang – Advisor Dr. Hongya Ge – was 

awarded the 2011 Hashimoto Fellowship 

Jingjing Zhang – Advisor Dr. Nirwan Ansari - 

received an ECE Fellowship and the Hashimoto Prize 

Jingjing Zhang – Advisor Dr. Nirwan Ansari - 

received the 2010 NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Graduate 

Student Award for “Configuration of Passive Optical 

PhD Dissertations 

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Networks Including Cascaded Array Waveguide 

Gratings” 

Yan Zhang – Advisor Dr. Nirwan Ansari – was 

awarded the 2011 Hashimoto Fellowship 

Student Name Dissertation 

Advisor 

Dissertation Title 

Wenqi (Wendy) Guo Dr. MengChu Zhou Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks Under Interference Sources in 

Intelligent Buildings 

Jing Shi Dr. Yanchao Zhang Secure Data Access in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensing Systems 

Lan Yu Dr. Timothy Chang Model Reference Control for Ultra-High Positioning Systems 

Kodzovi Acolatse Dr. Yeheskel 

Bar-Ness 

Design of Single-Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization Systems With 

Transmit Diversity for Wireless and Optical Communications 

Liyu Xu Dr. MengChu Zhou Maximum Likelihood Approaches to Automatic Modulation Recognition and 

Their Applications to Cognitive Radio 

Nilufa Rahim Dr. Durgamadhab 

Misra 

Nicola Varanese Dr. Yeheskel 

Bar-Ness 

TiN/HfO2/SiO2Si Gate Stacks Reliability: Contribution of HfO2 and Interfacial 

SiO2 Layer 

Distributed Synchronization Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks 

Jingjing Zhang Dr. Nirwan Ansari Optimizing Resource Allocation in Next-Generation Optical Access Networks 

Nan Wang Dr. Nirwan Ansari Efficient Packet Delivery in Modern Communication Networks

Graduate Degrees Awarded 

MS Degrees Awarded PhD Degrees Awarded 

Program Degrees Program Degrees 

Computer Engineering 16 Computer Engineering 2 

Electrical Engineering 68 Electrical Engineering 8 

Internet Engineering 3 

Power & Energy Systems 2 

Telecommunications 15 __ 

Total 104 10 

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Graduate Enrollment 

MS Degree Enrollment PhD Degree Enrollment 

Program Enrollment Program Enrollment 

Computer Engineering 28 Computer Engineering 9 

Electrical Engineering 158 Electrical Engineering 54 

Bioelectronics 5 

Internet Engineering 2 

Power & Energy Systems 32 

Telecommunications 22 __ 

Totals 247 63 

Graduate Courses 

Course 

Number 

Course Title Fall 2010 Spring 2011 

ECE 601 Linear Systems Haddad 

Richman 

ECE605 Discrete Event Dyn. Systems Hu, H. 

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Haddad 

Richman 

ECE610 Power System Steady State Hubbi 

ECE611 Linear Systems Hu, H. 

ECE612 Computer Method in Power Systems Hu, H. 

ECE613 Protection of Power Systems Kudyan 

ECE616 Power Electronics Abou-Alfotouh 

ECE618 Renewable Energy Systems Pan 

ECE620 Electromagnetic Field Theory Whitman 

ECE622 Wave Propagation Niver 

ECE630 Microwave Electronic Systems Whitman 

ECE632 Antenna Theory Whitman 

ECE636 Computer Networking Laboratory Pan Pan 

Tao Han 

ECE637 Introduction to Internet Engineering Rojas-Cessa Sakarindr 

Sakarindr 

ECE639 Principles of Broadband Networks Ansari 

ECE640 Digital Signal Processing Akansu Akansu 

ECE641 Laboratory for DSP with FPGAS Akansu Torun 

ECE642 Communication Systems I Klapper Klapper 

Klapper 

ECE643 Digital Image Processing I Shi 

ECE644 Wireless & Personal Communication Systems Haimovich 

ECE645 Wireless Networks Chen Chen 

ECE653 Micro/Nanotechnologies for Interfacing Live Cells Perez-Castillejos 

ECE655 Modeling of Biological Neural Systems Dhawan 

ECE657 Semiconductor Devices Chang, H. 

ECE658 Introduction to Control Systems Misra 

ECE659 Fabrication Principles Electrical & Optical Devices Sosnowski 

ECE660 Introduction to Control Systems Friedland 

ECE661 Control Systems Components Haessig 

ECE664 Real Time Control Systems Friedland 

ECE666 Control Systems II Friedland 

ECE673 Random Signal Analysis I Haddad 

Haddad 

Haddad 

Abdi

ECE683 Computer Network Design and Analysis Kim Kim 

ECE684 Advanced Microprocessor Systems Lopes Lopes 

ECE689 Digital Systems Design Hou 

ECE690 Computer Systems Architecture Ziavras Ziavras 

ECE692 Embedded Computing Systems Hu, J. 

ECE740 Advanced Digital Signal Processing Ge 

ECE742 Communication Systems II Bar-Ness 

ECE747 Signal Decomposition Techniques: Transforms, Sub-bands and Wavelets Akansu 

ECE757 Advanced Wireless Networks Bar-Ness 

ECE758 VLSI Design II Misra 

ECE776 Information Theory Simeone 

ECE783 Computer Communication Networks Kolarov Kolarov 

ECE788 Selected Topics: Adv Topics: Broadband Network Ansari 

ECE788 Selected Topics: Learn & Inference Prob Graph Simeone 

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Research 

Research Areas 

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has a strong history of research. Being multidisciplinary in 

nature, there are overlapping areas of research and instruction within the Department. Research is divided into five 

main focus areas: Electronic and Photonic Devices, Communications, Signal Processing and Microwaves, Computer 

Architecture and Systems, Computer Networking and Intelligent Systems. 

The Department houses the following Research Centers and Laboratories: 

Advanced Networking Laboratory 

Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research 

Computer Architecture & Parallel Processing Laboratory 

Device and Material Characterization Laboratory 

Laboratory for Integrated Nanostructures 

The Electronic Imaging Center 

These Centers and Laboratories are detailed later in this report. 

ECE faculty work closely with ECE Research Centers and laboratories, as well as with other NJIT Research Centers, 

such as the Microelectronics Fabrication Center. In addition, many ECE faculty pursue collaborative research with 

outside Research Centers and institutions of higher learning. ECE Department research includes academic, industrial 

and military related pursuits and the ECE Department has collaborative research ties to a number of international 

universities, including T.U. Delft, the Politecnico di Torino, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Karlsruhe University 

and Politecnico di Milano. 

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Laboratories and Affiliated Research Centers 

Instructional Laboratories 

Computer Networking Laboratory (ECE 636) 

Faculty: Dr. Nirwan Ansari 

This lab provides students with hands-on training regarding the design, 

troubleshooting, modeling and evaluation of computer networks. In 

this course, students experiment in a real test-bed networking 

environment, and learn about network design and troubleshooting 

topics and tools such as: network addressing, Address Resolution 

Protocol (ARP), basic troubleshooting tools (e.g. ping, ICMP), IP 

routing (e.g., RIP), route discovery (e.g. traceroute), TCP and UDP, IP 

fragmentation and many others. Student are introduced to network 

modeling and simulation, and they have the opportunity to build some 

simple networking models using the OPNET modeling tool and 

perform simulations that help them evaluate their design approaches 

and expected network performance. 

Laboratory for Digital Signal Processing With Processing With Field Programmable Gate Arrays 

(ECE 641) 

Faculty: Dr. Ali Akansu 

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become an industry 

standard to implement popular digital signal processing (DSP) and 

other algorithms in firmware for high performance data processing. 

Many DSP algorithms previously implemented using applicationspecific 

integrated circuits (ASICs) and programmable digital signal 

processors (PDSPs) are now replaced by FPGAs. On the other hand 

the DSP hardware design has been moving from graphical design tools 

to hardware description language (HDL) that are led by Verilog and 

VHDL and both of these languages seem to be well suited for DSP 

with FPGA. This course introduces today’s FPGA technology, the 

design tools for the state-of-the-art DSP algorithms and systems. It 

then focuses on computer arithmetic including possible number 

representations for DSP with FPGA like distributed arithmetic (DA) 

and CORDIC algorithm. Finally, there is a set of DSP implementation 

spanning from finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse 

response (IIR) filters to wavelet processors with two-channel filter 

banks. 

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Computer Communications and Computer Networking Laboratory (ECE 429) 

Faculty: Dr. Roberto Rojas-Cessa 

The Computer Communications and Networking Laboratory is a new facility in the ECE Department 

created for the study of current computer communications technologies. These technologies include the 

study of different communication layers, from the data-link or interface level to the application level. The 

laboratory has dedicated workstations that can be interconnected as a network or a cloud, as well as data 

communications equipment. In addition, a collection of computer analysis software is loaded into the 

workstations for students to perform different tests and understand the different protocols and standards 

used for data and computer communications and networking. 

The laboratory has been created by Dr. Rojas-Cessa to reinforce undergraduate curricula for the Computer 

Engineering track. The laboratory has been supported by the office of Dean of the Newark College of 

Engineering (NCE), the ECE Department, and private companies. While the laboratory is currently 

dedicated to ECE 429, Laboratory of Computer Communications, it is expected to accommodate graduate 

level courses in the near future. 

Students work in the new Computer Communications and Networking Laboratory 

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Research Centers and Laboratories 

Advanced Networking Laboratory 

Faculty: Dr. Nirwan Ansari 

The Advanced Networking Laboratory (ANL) at NJIT engages in research to improve the performance, dependability, 

and trustworthiness of telecommunications networks. Current and recent research projects focus on: All-optical 

networks (to increase the information-carrying capacity and the utilization of network assets via the re-arrangability of 

network connectivity) 

Quality-of-Service (QoS) routing (to support networked applications requiring different qualities of service) 

Link state updating (to expedite the exchange of network state information) 

Active queue management (to control congestion and to reduce the occurrence of overflows of packet buffers 

associated with network routers) 

Traffic modeling and scheduling (to improve the ability to engineer and operate networks with predictable 

qualities of service) 

Broadband access (to provide end users at network edges with sufficient bandwidth and QoS) 

Network coding (to improve network performance by mixing/coding information received from multiple 

links at intermediate network nodes) 

Network security (to maintain the integrity of the Internet and other emerging networks) 

Specific network-based applications, such as electronic voting (e-voting) systems. 

The goals of the Advanced Networking Laboratory are to identify, model, simulate, and demonstrate next-generation 

networking technologies, and to add to the knowledge base for next-generation networks; to train tomorrow's network 

engineering innovators; and to foster industrial collaboration and international partnerships. ANL innovations are 

disseminated via patent disclosures, journal publications, conference presentations, and presentations to funding 

sponsors and prospective users. 

For example, ANL, in collaboration with NEC America, has made advances in Passive Optical Networks. The National 

Science Foundation (NSF) has supported investigations into finding a new way to provide services to a growing set of 

traffic classes in next-generation networks. ANL is also leading an international collaboration between Japan and the 

U.S. to identify and to develop advanced security technologies for the next generation of ubiquitous networks, under 

the Strategic International Cooperative Program between the Japan’s Science and Technology Agency and NSF. 

The laboratory is equipped with a variety of computers. Associated with ANL is the Teaching, Training and Testing 

Networking Laboratory (T3Net) which has been established for instructional and training purposes; T3Net is equipped 

with a number of CISCO routers. 

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Computer Architecture & Parallel Processing Laboratory 

Faculty: Dr. Sotirios Ziavras 

The Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing Laboratory (CAPPL) was 

established in 2003. Its primary research activities include advanced microprocessor 

and computer architecture design, reconfigurable computing with actual system 

realizations on FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays), chip multiprocessors, 

embedded computing systems, parallel processing, heterogeneous multiprocessors, 

power-aware designs, high-performance computing, specialized designs (e.g., for 

network intrusion detection) and system-on-a-chip designs. CAPPL houses, among 

others, several multi-FPGA platforms containing Xilinx and Altera FPGAs for the 

design of multiprocessors and the development of high-performance applications. It 

also owns a large PC cluster for high-performance application development. 

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Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research 

Faculty: Dr. Yeheskel Bar-Ness 

The Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research at New Jersey Institute of Technology was 

established in 1985. Since its inception, it has contributed to technological advances in communications with research 

in many areas of communication theory. Research activity in the Center has grown over the years and diversified into 

new research fields. 

The Center currently counts 5 active faculty members, 1 post-doc and over 20 graduate students, most of them pursuing 

their Doctor of Philosophy degree. Its main areas of research are CDMA and spread spectrum systems, multi-carrier 

modulation, ultra-wideband communications, MIMO systems, space-time codes and turbo-codes, information theory, 

and adaptive signal processing. 

The center houses visiting graduate students from renowned universities overseas. Among them are T.U. Delft, the 

Politecnico di Torino, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Karlsruhe University and Politecnico di Milano. The 

Center also establishes contact with technical personnel in the electronics industry to learn their needs and designs and 

delivers short courses for them as part of NJIT’s continuing education program. Also offered are seminars of interest to 

center members, the ECE Department and local industry. 

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Device and Material Characterization Laboratory (Silicon Nano Electronics) 

Faculty: Dr. Durgamadhab Misra 

The Device Characterization Laboratory has the ability to perform electrical characterizations on 4", 5" as well as 6" 

wafers. It has the facilities which can perform characterizations such as: 

Current-Voltage Characterization 

Capacitance-Voltage Characterization [Both High Frequency and Quasistatic to determine Surface Potential ( 

s) and Interface State Density (D it)] 

Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown (TDDB) Measurements 

Current, Voltage and Thermal Stress Measurements 

Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy (DLTS) 

Magnetic Field Measurements 

To complete the test device structure, typically a Schottky diode or a MOS Capacitor, metallization is performed in 

Physical Vapor Deposition Unit (PDV) using shadow mask. PDV is advantageous as compared to sputtering which is 

known to create surface damage during the deposition due to the bombardment of high energy ions on the contact. To 

achieve proper ohmic contact, the devices are annealed in furnace in N 2 ambient at a suitable temperature to complete 

the test device. 

Current research topics are: 

Reliability of High-K Dielectrics in nanoscale CMOS Devices. Reliability enhancement work is done by 

deuterium implantation before gate oxide is grown. This involves extensive device characterization such as 

gate oxide reliability, hot electron effect, interface states and low temperature characterization. 

Electrical characteristics of thermally evaporated hafnium oxide 

VLSI Design - The VLSI Design research includes (i) A Synthesizable VHDL Model of the Exact Solution 

for Three-Dimensional Hyperbolic Positioning System; (ii) On-Chip Implementation of Deadlock Avoidance 

in Wormhole Networks; and Transceiver design for sensors network 

Integrated Sensors 

The characterization and modeling of Three N-Type Implant Pinned Buried Photodetector using Charge 

Transfer Model for Ultra High Frame Rate Burst Image Sensors 

Remote monitoring of chemical sensors using local transceivers 

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Laboratory for Integrated Nanostructures 

Faculty: Dr. Leonid Tsybeskov 

The Laboratory for Integrated Nanostructures (LIN) facility, directed by Professor Leonid Tsybeskov, includes 

Rapid Thermal, Ultra-Low Pressure CVD for Si, Ge and SiGe deposition with in-situ cleaning and 

monitoring capabilities 

Raman spectroscopy module 

Photoluminescence spectroscopy module with UV, visible and NIR CW and pulsed excitation modules and 

state-of-the art low noise photodetectors 

Cryogenic systems including close range optical cryostat with a superconducting magnet and state-of-the-art 

electronics to measure static, quasi-static and dynamic conductivity in a broad frequency range 

The low-temperature scanning probe system (SPS) is a part of the recently awarded NSF MRI grant and 

specifically designed to study buried quantum dots and other semiconductor nanostructures. 

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Affiliated Research Centers 

The Microelectronics Fabrication Center 

The mission of the Microelectronics Fabrication Center is to contribute to NJIT research and development 

programs by developing cutting-edge technologies for micro- and nano-fabrication; to educate the next 

generation of engineers and scientists in BioMEMS, MEMS, microelectronics and nanotechnologies; and 

to serve as an interface between industry and academia. To that end, the Microelectronics Fabrication 

Center at NJIT is a dynamic interface between research, business and education. MFS’s Class-10 and 

Class-1000 cleanroom facilities are equipped with cutting-edge micromachining technologies for 

fabricating MEMS, BioMEMs and ACISs. The Center provides wafer processing services on 3, 4, 5 and 6 

inch wafers of silicon, glass, ceramic, polymer, and ferroelectrics. The Microelectronics Fabrication 

Center’s engineering team is available to fabricate prototypes and are experts in design and fast 

prototyping. Te 

The Electronic Imaging Center 

Dr. Haim Grebel, Center Director 

The Electronic Imaging Center (EIC) at NJIT and the 

Optoelectronic Laboratory, which it houses, promote optoelectronic 

research at the micro and nano-scale levels. The 

Center's Director is Prof. Haim Grebel. EIC has been part of 

some broad initiatives, such as the Optoelectronic initiative by 

the NJ Commission on Science and Technology and the Smart 

Coating project by the US Army. The Center's mission is to 

integrate research efforts across departments and disciplines 

throughout NJIT in areas such as, infrared filters, THz and 

microwave, bio-sensors and opto-electronic devices. In recent 

years, the activities of the Center has concentrated in research 

and education of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience. For 

example, the Center was involved in the manufacturing and 

characterization of carbon nanotubes and graphene. The Center 

promotes technical talks and seminars with the Northern NJ 

Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society and is actively pursuing 

collaborative efforts with local industry. Research facilities 

include several laser systems, Raman spectroscopy systems, a 

fast gated CCD image intensifier, IR spectrometer and a 2-6 

micron CCD camera. 

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Major Grants 

ECE Faculty as Principal Investigator Awards 

PI Award Title Source Dates Amount 

A. Abdi (PI) 

M. Badiey (Co-PI) 

A. Song (Co-PI) 

Collaborative Research: Data Communication via 

Particle Velocity Channels – A Paradigm Shift in 

Underwater Acoustic Communication 

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NSF 2008- 

2011 

$335,647.00 

A. Akansu NVIDIA Research Equipment Grant for Tesla GPUs Tesla 2011 $8,000.00 

N. Ansari Sensor Network Computational Intelligence Methods 

for Optimization 

U.S. Army (through 

CACI) 

2008- 


N. Ansari Child Safe Personalized Weapons US Dept of Justice 2009- 


N. Ansari Examination of Election-Related Computers and Data NJ Division of 

Election 

N. Ansari Sensor network Signal Fusion Methods US Army (through 

CACI) 

N. Ansari REPWiNet: Renewable Energy Powered Wireless 

Networks – Architecture, Protocols and 

Implementations 

NSF Computer and 

Network Systems 

2010- 



2012 


2013 

Y. Bar-Ness Distributed Synchronization and Signal Processing IIT Industries 2010- 


J. Carpinelli The Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp Exxon Mobil 

Foundation 

H. Ge Passive Wavefront Curvature Ranging Using 

Distributed Arrays in Underwater Acoustic 

Environments Subject to Spatial Coherence Loss 



$30,000.00 

$259,614.02 

$85,000.00 

$40,000.00 

$110,000.00 

$75,000.00 

$80,000.00 

2012 $80,000.00 

H. Ge ONR Summer Faculty Research Award ONR 10`` $80,000.00 

A. Haimovich Distributed MIMO Radar for Imaging and High 

Resolution Target Localization 

A. Haimovich 

(collaboration with 

Princeton) 

A. Haimovich (PI) 

Y. Bar-Ness (Co-PI) 

O. Simeone (Co-PI) 

Signal Processing Algorithms for Very Accurate 

Geolocation 

Techniques for Detection of MIMO-OFDM Signal, 

Subtask 1 & 2+9 

E. Hou Collaborative Research: GOALI:AIS Gene Library 

Based Real-Time Resource Allocation on Time- 

Sensitive Large-Scale Multi-Rate Systems 

AFOSR 2009- 


U.S. Army 2010- 


U.S. Army through 

CACI 



NSF 2008- 

2012 

W. Hubbi Other DOE 2010- 


D. Misra Summer Research Institute for 11 Students Heritage Institute of 

Technology 

D. Misra International Summer REU Institute Heritage Institute of 

Technology 




2012 

$419,852.00 

$275,596.00 

$250,000.00 

$198,008 

$3,999.00 

$36,572.00 

$50,878.00

D. Misra International Symposium on High Dielectric Constant 

and Other Dielectric Materials for Nanoelectronics and 

Photonics 

E. Niver (PI) 

G. Whitman (Co-PI) 

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NSF 2010- 


UH-60M Antenna Technology Evaluation U.S. Army/Specialty 

Systems Inc. 

2009- 


Y.Q. Shi W15P7T-09-D-P013, TO 0016, subtask 7 U.S. Army/CACI 2011- 

2012 

Y.Q. Shi Modulation Parameter Estimation U.S. Army/CACI 2010- 


O. Simeone (PI) 

E. Ekici (Co-PI) 

Distributed Spectrum Leasing via Cross-Layer 

Cooperation 

L. Tsybeskov (PI) Light-emitters based on Si/SiGe Quantum 

Dot/Quantum Well Complexes 

L. Tsybeskov (PI) Silicon-Germanium Nanopillar Heterojunction Based 

RF Emitters 

L. Tsybeskov (PI) Integrated Light Emitters Utilizing Abrupt Si/SIGe 

Hererojunctions 

L. Tsybeskov (PI) SiGe Nanowire Heterojunction Based Thermoelectric 

Devices 

M.C. Zhou Modulation Parameter Estimation Method Support – 

Software Defined Radio Concept 

M.C. Zhou Interference Impact, Power Consumption and 

Performance Evaluation Issues in Wireless Sensor 

Networks for Buildings 

NSF 2009- 

2012 

NSF 2007- 

2012 


2013 


2013 

Hewlett-Packard 

Research Laboratory 


2012 

DOD 2010- 


US Dept of 

Commerce, NIST 


2012 

$5,000.00 

$200,000.00 

$55,000.00 

$60,000.00 

$500,000.00 

$270,000.00 

$290,000.00 

$310,000.00 

$150,000.00 

$60,000.00 

$306,199.00 

S. Ziavras XILINX Software UEF-ISE-SYSTEM-25 Xilinx Corp. 2010 $999.00

ECE Faculty as Co-Principal Investigator Awards 

Co-PI Award Title Source Dates Amount 

A. Haimovich (PI) 

Y. Bar Ness (Co-PI) 

O. Simeone (Co-PI) 

R. Rockland (PI) 

J. Carpinelli (Co-PI) 

H. Kimmel (Co-PI) 

L. Burr-Alexander (Co- 

PI) 

L. Hirsch (Co-PI) 

J. Carpinelli (Co-PI) 

H. Kimmel 

R.H. Rockland 

N. Ansari (PI) 

E. Hou (CoPI) 

F. Karaa (PI) 

E. Niver (CoPI) 

E. Niver (PI) 

G. Whitman (Co-PI) 

N. Wu (PI) 

M.C. Zhou (Co-PI) 

Techniques for 

Detection of MIMO- 

OFDM Signal, Subtask 

1 & 2 

Medibotics: The 

Merging of Medicine, 

Robotics and 

Information 

Technology 

U.S. Army through 

CACI 

Virtual Medibiotics Exxon Mobil 

Corporation 

Child Safe Personalized 

Weapons 

Innovative and 

Effective Techniques 

for Locating 

Underground Conduits 

UH-60M Antenna 

Technology Evaluation 

Real-Time Scheduling 

and Optimal 

Operational Control of 

Cluster Tools in 

Semiconductor 

Manufacturing 

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2010-2011 $150,000.00 

NSF 2007-2011 $1,050,815.00 

2011-2014 $300,000.00 

US Dept of Justice 2009-2011 $259,614.02 

NJDOT/USDOT 2010 $109,168.00 

U.S. Army/Specialty 

Systems 

Natural Science 

Foundation of China 

2009-2010 $200,000.00 

2010-2012 $53,000.00 

Faculty Patents and Patent Disclosures 

S. Wang and A. Abdi, System and/or Method for 

Channel Estimation in Communication Systems, No. 

7,929,563, April 2011, Patent is issued and licensed. 

H. Zhang and A. Abdi, Mobile Speed and Doppler 

Frequency Estimation Using Cyclostationarity, No. 

11/944,279, Application is considered ready for issue, 

August 2011, Patent is licensed. 

N. Ansari and Y. Luo, “Dynamic Bandwidth 

Allocation and Service Differentiation for Broadband 

Passive Optical Networks,” U.S. Patent Number 

7808913, issued 10/05/2010. 

A. Belenky and N. Ansari, “Deterministic Packet 

Marking,” U.S. Patent Number 7873997, issued 

01/18/2011. 

A. Belenky and N. Ansari, “Accommodating 

Fragmentation with Deterministic Packet Marking,” 

U.S. Patent Number 7908654, issued 03/15/2011. 

F. Alharbi and N. Ansari, “Distributed Bandwidth 

Allocation for Resilient Packet Ring,” US Patent 

Number 7948881, issued 05/24/2011.

S. Sengupta and N. Ansari, “Sub-segment Based 

Transport Layer Protocol for Wireless Medium,” US 

Patent Number 7965674, issued 06/21/2011. 

N. Ansari, G. Chen, and K. Xu, “Providing 

Proportionally Fair Bandwidth Allocation in 

Communications Systems,” US Patent Number 

7969881, issued 06/28/2011. 

H. Ge and L. L. Scharf, “Code, Signal and Conjugate 

Direction Design for Rapid-Adaptive Communication 

Receivers and Electromagnetic, Acoustic and Nuclear 

Array Processors,” US Patent Application (App. # 

11/374,485) filed in March 2006 (A Joint filing btw 

NJIT and CSU. NJIT hired a NY/NJ law firm to 

handle the final submission). Latest updates/responses 

to Patent office were done in Aug 2009, 2010. US 

Patent Number 7969881, issued 06/28/2011. 

A. Haimovich and Shengshan Cui, Disclosure, NJIT 

file# 08-021, Method for Wireless Communications 

from Source Nodes to Infrastructure and then from 

Infrastructure to Destination Nodes, respectively. 

A. Haimovich and M. Haleem, Disclosure, NJIT file# 

08-081, Multi-Frequency Waveforms for MIMO 

Radar. 

A. Haimovich and C. Comsa, Disclosure, NJIT file# 

08-082, Method for Estimating Emitter Location. 

A. Haimovich and V. Chiriac, Disclosure, NJIT 

file#09-012, High Resolution Method for Locating a 

Radio Frequency Source. 

A. Haimovich and M. Haleem, Disclosure, NJIT file# 

09-046, Location and Speed Estimation in Distributed 

MIMO Radar with Gaussian Pulse Train Waveforms. 

A. Haimovich and M. Haleem, Disclosure, NJIT 

file#09-047, Sidelobe Reduction in Distributed MIMO 

Radar with Randomization of Sensor Locations. 


file#09-048, Sidelobe Reduction in Distributed MIMO 

Radar with Multi-Carrier OFDM Signals. 

A. Haimovich and B. Niu, Disclosure, NJIT file#09- 

049, Interference Subspace Tracking for Network 

Interference Alignment in Cellular Systems. 


file#09-052, Target Localization in Distributed MIMO 

Radar with Orthogonal Signals. 

A. Haimovich and B. Khusid, Disclosure, NJIT 

file#09-055, Intellinet: Multi-modal, Nano-to-Macro, 

Cyber-Physical Intelligent Distributed System for 

Computing, Communication, and Control. 

A. Haimovich and B. Khusid, Disclosure, NJIT 

file#09-056, Intellinode: Small-scale Intelligent 

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Cyber-physical Device for Sensing, Multi-modal 

Communication, and Control. 

Edip Niver and Kenneth Lieberman, “Integrated Fiber 

Optic Raman Spectroscopy and Radio Frequency 

Ablation,” US Patent Application 2011/00190760 AI, 

August 4, 2011. 

Edip Niver, Mohamed Salem and Aladin H. Kamel. 

“Multimode Excitation Via Modal Decomposition of a 

Pulse by a Wave Launcher,” US Patent Application 

2011001850 AI, January 27, 2011. 

Edip Niver and Oksana Manzhura, “Broadband 

Circularly Polarized Moxon Based Antennas for UHF 

SATCOM,” US Provisional Patent Application 

#61521457, EFS ID 10694601, August 9, 2011. 

Roberto Rojas-Cessa, Eiji Oki, Hsiu Jonathan Chao, 

"Scheduling the dispatch of cells in non-empty virtual 

output queues of multistage switches using a pipelined 

arbitration scheme," Patent Type and Nationality: 

Regular, United States, Patent or Copyright Approved: 

August 9, 2011. 

Roberto Rojas-Cessa and Chuan-Bi Lin, "Scalable 

two-stage Clos-networking switch and module-first 

matching," Patent Type and Nationality: Regular, 

United States, Patent or Copyright Approved: 

November 30, 2010. 

Y. Q. Shi and C. H. Chen, “Method for Identifying 

Marked Images Using Statistical Moments Based at 

Least in Part on a JPEG Array, ”US patent 7,822,223 

awarded on October 26, 2010. 

Y. Q. Shi and G. Xuan, “Methods and apparatus for 

lossless data hiding” US 7, 826,638 awarded on 


Y. Q. Shi and C. H. Chen, Method and apparatus for 

steganalaysis for texture images US patent 7,885,470 

awarded on February 8, 2011. 

Y. Q. Shi and C. H. Chen, “Method for identifying 

marked images based at least in part on frequency 

domain coefficient differences” US patent 7,925,080 

awarded on April 12, 2011. 

Y. Q. Shi and G. R. Xuan, “Apparatus and method for 

reversible data hiding for JPEG images” US patent 

7,974,477 awarded on July 5, 2011. 

F. Iannello and O. Simeone, “Energy management 

policies for passive RFID sensors with RF-energy 

harvesting”, Invention disclosure. 2010. 

T.Elkourdi and O. Simeone, “Relaying methods for 

closed and open-access femtocells”, Invention 

disclosure. 2010.

ECE Senior Design Workshop 

Senior Design Workshop 

The semiannual ECE Senior Design Workshop brings 

a synergy among students, faculty and industry experts 

to help students gain an exciting and valuable 

experience in engineering project design and 

management that is closer to real-world situations. It 

further provides industry participants an opportunity to 

get to know students for future recruiting and 

enhancement of public relations. 

The Senior Design Workshop is a forum for seniors to 

present their senior design projects. Held on 

December 10, 2010 and May 3, 2011 this year’s 

workshops included fifty-seven students comprising 

nineteen teams presenting their design presentations. 

This popular event was attended by students, faculty, 

senior administration, alumni and industry 

representatives. The workshop culminates a twosemester 

program beginning with a faculty advisor 

and an industry representative to guide each group of 

students on the development, design, implementation 

and design of Senior Design Projects. At the end of 

the second semester, students present their work in the 

form of posters and a brief speech. The presentations 

and students are evaluated by the Senior Design 

Workshop Evaluation Committee which was 

composed of ECE faculty and industry participants. 

Platinum, Gold and Silver prizes are awarded for first, 

second and third place and all participants receive a 

Certificate of Participation. 

ECE Colloquia and Seminars 

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First place honors in the December 2010 Department 

of Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Design 

Workshop Poster Presentation event went to Robert 

Niedzwiecki, Andrew Keeling and Abdel Hezzini for 

their project, “Implementation of a Digitally 

Controlled Exhaust Powered Generator.” 

While the ECE Department has been fortunate to 

have many industry partnerships, in particular 

the Department would like to extend its 

appreciation to the following for their ongoing 

support and guidance: Abbott Point of Care, 

Agilent Technologies, ASCO Power Technologies, 

BAE Systems, Circadiant, Inc, Comcast Business 

Communications, CERDEC, IBM Corporation, 

InterDigital Communications, L.B. Electric, PSE&G, 

Tyrean, Inc, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., UMDNJ 

and World Class Communications. 

The ECE Colloquia and Seminar Series bring outstanding researchers and scholars to the Department as lecturers. 

Open to all interested students and faculty, these thought provoking and stimulating talks are much enjoyed by our 

students. This year the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been privileged to have had speakers 

from IBM, Columbia University, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania, 

Rutgers University, Purdue University, University of Central Florida, Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, Technion- 

Israel Institute of Technology, Shanghai University, InterDigital Communications Cornell University, Huawei 

Technologies, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and North Carolina State University .

Center for Wireless Communication and Signal 

Processing Research Day 

The Center for Wireless Communication and Signal 

Processing convened its annual Research Day on 

December 14, 2010. The day focused on presentations 

by eight of the Center’s doctoral students. Topics 

included “Optimal Design of MIMO Radar 

Waveforms Using Generalized DFT with Nonlinear 

Phase”, “Nonconvex Sparse Localization: Beyond 

Local Methods”, “Optimization Algorithm for Passive 

Source Localization”, “Modulation Classification 

With Support Vector Machines”, “Efficient 

Simulation of MIMO Space-Time Correlated 

Channels Using the Spectral Representation 

Theorem”, “Adaptive Decoding for Space Time Codes 

With Imperfect Channel Estimation, Using the 

Bootstrap Algorithm”, “CCA for Cross-Spectral 

Analysis”, and “Data Transmission Using QAcoustic 

Seminars 

Date Speaker Title 

September 16, 2010 Yigal Bejerano 

Bell Laboratories, 

Alcatel-Lucent 

September 21, 2010 Byeungwee Jeon 

Sungkyunkwan 

University, Korea 

September 23, 2010 Zalman J. Palmore 

Technion-Israel Institute 

of Technology 

September 24, 2010 Nabeel Riza 

University of Central 

Florida 

October 11, 2010 Llya Pollak 

Purdue University 

October 14, 2010 Huixin He 

Rutgers University 

October 21, 2010 Nader Engheta 

University of 

Pennsylvania 

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Dipoles.” Also included in CWCSPR Day was a 

poster display which detailed the research going on 

under the leadership of Director Yeheskel Bar-Ness, 

Dr. Alexander Haimovich, Dr. Ali Abdi and Dr. 

Hongya Ge. 

Center for Wireless Communication and Signal 

Processing Seminar Series 

The Center for Wireless Communication and Signal 

Processing continued its annual seminar series with 

lectures by three international researchers. The first 

was a talk on “Are There Still Challenges in Audio 

Processing? A Perspective of Specific Results and 

Open Issues” by Anibal Ferreira from the Department 

of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of 

Porto, Porto, Portugal. The second seminar was given 

by Dr. Onur Sahin, from InterDigital Inc., Melville, 

NY, who spoke on “Evolution of Cellular Systems: 

Borrowing From Theory”. The final seminar in the 

series was delivered by Stefano Rini of the University 

of Illinois who spoke “On the Capacity Region of the 

Cognitive Interference Channel.” 

Understanding the Unfair Behavior of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs 

Decoder-Cooperative Video Coding 

Novel Smith Predictors for MIMO Systems with Multiple I/O Delays 

Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurements in Next 

Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants 

MAP Segmentation of Alloy Micrographs: Constructing Shape Priors with 

Matching Pursuits 

Developing Nanomaterials for Biosensors and Drug Delivery Systems 

Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials

October 25, 2010 Stefano Rini 

University of Illinois 

October 28, 2010 Onur Ozan Koyloglu 

Ohio State and Alcatel- 

Lucent Bell Labs 

October 28, 2010 Xinpeng Zhang 

Shanghai University 

November 1, 2010 Chonggang Wang 

InterDigital 


November 10, 2010 Jhiming Ji 

MIE Dept., NJIT 

November 18, 2010 Yuanqiu Luo 

Huawei Technologies 

November 29, 2010 Zygmunt J. Haas 

Cornell University 

November 30, 2010 Donald Gies 

Bell Laboratories/ 

Alcatel-Lucent 

February 18, 2011 Deniz Gunduz 

University of Barcelona 

March 3, 2011 Balachander 

Krishnamurthy 

AT&T Labs – Research 

March 4, 2011 Hong Zhao 

Fairleigh Dickinson 

University 

March 31, 2011 Balagangadhar Bathul 

Columbia University 

April 6, 2011 Fernando Guarin 

IBM Semiconductor 

R&D Center 

April 14, 2011 Onus Sahin 

InterDigital 

April 14, 2011 Daniel Murnick 

Rutgers University 

April 28, 2011 Alex Smirnov 

North Carolina State 

University 

On the Capacity Region of the Cognitive Interference Channel 

Wireless Physical Layer Security: An Information Theoretic Approach 

Efficient Data Hiding with Multi-Layer Construction 

Network Selection for Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Systems 

Development of a Gait Rehabilitation System 

Optical and Wireless Integration: A Passive Optical Network (PON) Time 

Synchronization Overview 

Stochastic Routing for Delay Tolerant Networks 

Global Mains Wiring for Electrical Equipment 

Energy Harvesting Communication System with Battery Constraint and Leakage 

Stochastic Internet Privacy: Who Gathers Data and How, and What Can Be 

Done About It 

Network Steganography and Network Steganalysis 

Cross-Layer Architecture and Design Approaches for Optical Networks 

Semiconductor Reliability Topics for Advanced CMOS Technologies 

Evolution of Cellular Systems: Borrowing From Theory 

High Efficiency Mercury-Free Fluorescent Lamps 

Substrate-Supported Nanotubular Lipid Bilayers for Membrane Protein Biochips 

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ECE Industry Advisory Board 

Rick Attansio (’81) 

Senior Vice President of Networks 

Engineering and Operations 

Comcast Business Communications 

Leon K. Baptiste (’91) 

Principal 

LB Electric Company, LLC 

Donald K. Blackman (’76) 

Vice President 

ASCO Power Technologies 

(Division of Emerson Electric) 

Kevin G. Carswell (’79) 

Vice President Alliance and Licensing Transactions 

IBM Corporation 

My Chung (’74) 

President & Chief Executive Officer 

Circadiant, Inc. 

Celia Desmond 

President 

World Class Telecommunications 

Thad Gabara (’78, ’80) 

Patent Agent 

Tyrean LLC 

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David Haessig (’99) 

Senior Member Technical Staff 

BAE Systems, CNIR 

Esam Khadr (’75) 

Manager, Transmissions Planning & Technical 

Services 

PSE&G 

Brian Kiernan (’70) 

Senior Vice President 

InterDigital Communications 

Kevin W. Lu 

Chief Scientist, Technologies & Services 

Telcordia Technologies 

Doru Popescu (’81, ’85) 

Strategic Product Planner 

Agilent Technologies, Inc. 

Virginia C. Sulzberger (’62, ’66) 

Consultant 

Lionel S. Zuckier, MD 

University Hospital 


Interim Chair, ECE 

NJIT 

Gifts and Donations to the ECE Department 

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is grateful to have received significant donations 

and gifts. The Department would like to thank the following for their generous contributions: 

Agilent Technologies, Inc. 

ARM Corporation 

ASCO Power Technologies 

BAE Systems 

CERDEC/US Army 

Comcast Business Commun. 

Roy Cornely 

ExxonMobil Corporation 

General Motors 

IBM Corporation 

L3 Communications 

LB Electric Company, LLC 

LGS Innovations 

PSE&G Company 

RS Microwave Company 

Telecordia Technologies 

Tyrean 

Verizon Foundation 

Anonymous 

Rick Attanasio 

Leon Baptiste 

Yeheskel Bar-Ness 

Don Blackman 

Kevin Carswell 

Joseph J. Feeley 

Thad Gabara 

David Haessig 

Esam Khadr 

Brian Kiernan 

Anthony Lambiase 

Peter A. Lewis 

Piotr L. Machocki 

Elizabeth Majane 

Robert W. Messerschmidt 

Larry Muzzelo 

Doru Popescu 

Harris C. Rawicz 

Richard Snyder 

Kenneth S. Sohn 

Virginia Sulzberger 

The Family of Timothy 

Chang

Faculty Publications and Invited Lectures 

BOOKS 

Z. Karim, D. Misra, P. Srinivasan, Y. Obeng, S. De 

Gendt, (Editors), ECS Transactions (Volume 35, no. 3, 

532 pages, ISBN 978-1-56677-884-0, Hardcover-May 

2011), “Dielectrics in Nanosystems and Graphene, 

Ge/III-V, Nanowires and Emerging Materials for Post- 

CMOS Applications-3” 

BOOK CHAPTERS 

N. Ansari and A. Shevtekar, “Chapter 12: On the New 

Breed of Denial of Service Attacks in the Internet,” 

Cyber Infrastructure Protection (Tarek Saadawi and 

Louis Jordan, ed), Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies 

Institute, U.S. Army War College, to appear. 

H-Y. Chang and L. Tsybeskov, “Chapter 5: Thermal 

Properties and Heat Transport in Silicon-Based 

Nanostructures,” in Silicon Nanocrystals: 

Fundamentals, Synthesis and Applications, ( Lorenzo 

Pavesi and Rasit Turan, eds.), DOI: 10.1002/97835ey- 

VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. 

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

A. Abdi and M. Kaveh, “A Comparative Study of 

Two Shadow Fading Models in Ultrawideband and 

Other Wireless Systems,” IEEE Trans. Wireless 

Commun., Vol. 10, pp. 1428-1434, May 2011. 

A. Song, A. Abdi, M. Badiey and P. Hursky, 

“Experimental Demonstration of Underwater Acoustic 

Communication by Vector Sensors,” IEEE J. Oceanic 

Eng., Vol. 36, pp. 454-461, July 2011. 

H. Guo, A. Abdi, A. Song and M. Badiey, “Delay and 

Doppler Spreads in Underwater Acoustic Particle 

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Velocity Channels,” Journal of the Acoustical Society 

of America, Vol. 129, pp. 2015-2025, April 2011. 

O. A. Dobre, A. Abdi, Y. Bar-Ness and W. Su, 

“Cyclostationarity-based Modulation Classification of 

Linear Digital Modulations in Flat Fading Channels,” 

Wireless Personal Commun., Vol. 54, pp. 699-717, 

September 2010. 

M.U. Torun, A.N. Akansu and M. Avellaneda, 

“Portfolio Risk in Multiple Frequencies”, IEEE Signal 

Processing Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 61-71, Sept. 

2011. 

A.N. Akansu, H. Agirman-Tosun, and M.U. Torun, 

“Optimal Design of Phase Function in Generalized 

DFT”, Physical Communication, Elsevier, Vol. 3, 

issue 4, pp. 255-264, Dec. 2010. 

A.N. Akansu and H. Agirman-Tosun, “Generalized 

Discrete Fourier Transform with Nonlinear Phase”, 

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 

9, pp. 4547-4556, Sept. 2010. 

Z. Liu, H. Schurz, N. Ansari, and Q. Wang, 

“Theoretic Design of Differential Minimax 

Controllers for Stochastic Cellular Neural Networks,” 

Neural Networks, accepted. 

Y. Zhang, N. Ansari, M. Wu, and H. Yu, “On Wide 

Area Network Optimization,” IEEE Communications 

Surveys and Tutorials, to appear (on-line early access 

available). 

T. Ako, H. Nishiyama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, “A 

Novel Multi-Channel Streaming Scheme to Reduce 

Channel Switching Delay in Application Layer 

Multicast,” IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on 

Multimedia Communications Systems, to appear (online 

early access available). 

S. Prabhavat, H. Nishiyama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, 

“On Load Distribution over Multipath Networks,” 

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, to 

appear (on-line early access available). 

H. Nakayama, Z.M. Fadlullah, N. Ansari, and N. 

Kato, “A Novel Scheme for WSAN Sink Mobility 

based on Clustering and Set Packing Techniques,” 

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear in 

Oct. 2011. 

S. Prabhavat, H. Nishiyama, N. Ansari, and N. Kato, 

“Effective Delay-Controlled Load Distribution over 

Multipath Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel 

and Distributed Systems, to appear in Oct. 2011.

J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Scheduling Hybrid 

WDM/TDM Passive Optical Networks with Non-zero 

Laser Tuning Time,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on 

Networking, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1014-1027, Aug. 


J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On Assuring End-to-End 

QoE in Next Generation Networks: Challenges and a 

Possible Solution,” IEEE Communications Magazine, 

Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 185-192, July 2011. 

T. Han and N. Ansari, “Energy Efficient Wireless 

Multicasting,” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 

15, No. 6, pp. 620-622, June 2011. 

J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On OFDMA Resource 

Allocation and Wavelength Assignment in OFDMAbased 

Radio-over-fiber Picocellular Systems with 

Wavelength Reuse,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas 

in Communications, Special Issue on Distributed 

Broadband Wireless Communications, Vol. 29, No. 6, 

pp. 1273-1283, June 2011. 

N. Wang and N. Ansari, “Downloader-Initiated 

Random Linear Network Coding for P2P File 

Sharing,” IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 61- 

69, Mar. 2011. 

J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On the Capacity of WDM 

Passive Optical Networks,” IEEE Transactions on 

Communications, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 552-559, Feb. 


J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Towards Energy-efficient 

1G-EPON and 10G-EPON with Sleep-aware MAC 

Control and Scheduling,” IEEE Communications 

Magazine, Special Feature on Advances in Passive 

Optical Networks, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. S33-S38, 

February 2011. 

P. Sakarindr and N. Ansari, “Survey of Security 

Services on Group Communications,” IET 

Information Security, Special Issue on Multi-Agent & 

Distributed Information Security, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 

258-272, Dec. 2010. 

J. Zhang and N. Ansari, “An Application-oriented 

Fair Resource Allocation Scheme for EPON,” IEEE 

Systems Journal, Special Issue on Broadband Access 

Networks, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 424-431, Dec. 2010. 

K. Acolatse, and Y. Bar-Ness, “Performance Analysis 

of Space-Time Spreading DS-CDMA Systems Over 

Fast-Fading Time-Correlated Channels,” IEEE 

Communications Letters, Vol. 14, issue # 11, 

November 2010, pp. 993-995. 

K. Acolatse, Y. Bar-Ness, and S.K. Wilson, “Novel 

Techniques Single Carrier Frequency Domain 

Equalization for Optical Wireless Communications,” 

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 

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Vol. 2011, Article ID 393768, 13 pages, (no page 

numbers) April, 2011. 

K. Acolatse and Y. Bar-Ness, “Single Carrier 

Frequency Domain Equalization (SCFDE) Space- 

Time Block-Spread CDMA (STBS-CDMA) with 

Multiuser Interference (MUI)-Free Detection,” The 

Journal of Wireless and Personal Communications, 

Springer, Vol. 57, pp. 481-499, April 2011. 

A. Laufer and Y. Bar-Ness, “Full Rate Space Time 

Codes for Large Number of Transmitting Antennas 

with Linear Complexity Decoding,” The Journal of 

Wireless and Personal Communications Springer, Vol. 

57, pp. 465-480, April 2011. 

B. Friedland, “On Design of Observer-Based Pulse- 

Frequency-Modulated Feedback Control Systems ”, 

IECON 2010, Phoenix, AZ, November 9, 2010. 

B. Friedland, “On Observer-Based Control System 

Design with Delayed Data,” Proceedings, 2010 

American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 

5006-5011. June 30-July 2, 2010. 

T. Wu, X. S. Wang, B. Cohen, and H. Ge, “Molecular 

Modeling of Normal and Sickle Hemoglobins,” in the 

Special Issue on Advances in Multiscale and 

Multiphysics Methods, International Journal for 

Multiscale Computational Engineering, Begell House 

Digital Library, Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp. 237-244, 2010. 

D. Xie, J.G. Huang, and H. Ge, “Direction of Arrival 

Estimation in Partially Correlated Non-uniform 

Noise,” submitted for publication in SCIENCE 

CHINA Information Sciences, September 2010. 

Shengshan Cui; A.M. Haimovich, A.M. , Throughput 

Scaling of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With No Side 

Information," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.14, 

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S. K. Sahoo, D. Misra, M. Sahoo, C. A. MacDonald, 

H. Bakhru, D. C. Agrawal, Y. N. Mohapatra, S. B. 

Majumder, and R. S. Katiyar, “Improved Dielectric 

Properties and Their Temperature Insensitivity in 

Multilayered Ba 0.8Sr 0.2TiO 3/ZrO 2 Thin Films”, Journal 

of Applied Physics, Vol. 109, 064108 (2011). 

S.D. K. Sahoo, D. Misra, D. C. Agrawal, Y. N. 

Mohapatra, S. B. Majumder, and R. S. Katiyar, 

Leakage mechanism of Ba 0.8Sr 0.2TiO 3/ZrO 2 multi 

layer thin films, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 108, 

074112 (2010). 

Mohamed A. Salem, Aladin H. Kamel and Edip 

Niver, “Microwave Bessel Beams Generation using 

Guided Modes,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and 

Propagation, Vol. 59, No.6, June 2011, pp. 2241-6. 

Serkan Simsek, Ercan Topuz and Edip Niver, “A 

Novel Design Method for Waveguide Filters with

Dielectric Loading,” AEU-International Journal of 

Electronics and Communication, Online version was 

published on August 9, 2011, pp. 1-7. 

Edip Niver and Ibrahim Tekin, “UHF SATCOM 

Broadband CP Antenna: Moxon type Bent Dipoles 

over a Ground Plane,” PIERS Online, Vol.7, No. 8, 

pp. 726-730, August 2011. 

R. Rojas-Cessa and Z. Dong (2011). Load-Balanced 

Combined Input-Crosspoint Packet Switch. IEEE 

Transactions on Communications, 9(5), 14. 

www.ieee.org 

Z. Dong, R. Rojas-Cessa, and E. Oki. (2011). 

“Buffered Clos-Network Packet Switch with Per- 

Output Flow Queues,” IET Electronic Letters, 47(1), 

2. www.iet.org. 

M. Aoki, E. Oki, R. Rojas-Cessa. (2010). 

Measurement Scheme for One-Way Delay Variation 

with Detection and Removal of Clock Skew. ETRI 

Journal, 32(6), 9. 

X. M. Zhang, W. Q. Xu, Y. Q. Shi and S. Basu, 

“Basis Arrays and Successive Packing for M-D 

Interleaving,” Multimedia Systems and Signal 

Processing, An International Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 

March 2011. 

V. Sachnev, H. J. Kim, S. Suresh and Y. Q. Shi, 

“Reversible Watermarking Algorithm with Distortion 

Compensation,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in 

Signal Processing, accepted in December 2010, 

Volume 2010, Article ID 316820, 12 pages, 

doi:10.1155/2010/316820. 

F. Huang, J, Huang and Y. Q. Shi, “Detecting Double 

JPEG Compression with the Same Quantization 

Matrix,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics 

and Security, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 848-856, December 


F. Huang, J. Huang and Y. Q. Shi, “An Experimental 

Study on the Security Performance of YASS,” IEEE 

Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 

Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 374-380, September 2010. 

T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone, “Femtocell as a Relay: 

An Outage Analysis,” to appear in IEEE Trans. 

Wireless Commun. 

O. Sahin, O. Simeone and E. Erkip, “Gaussian 

Interference Channel Aided by a Relay with Out-ofband 

Reception and In-band Transmission,” to appear 

in IEEE Trans. Commun. 

D. Chiarotto, O. Simeone and M. Zorzi, “Spectrum 

Leasing via Cooperative Opportunistic Routing 

Techniques,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., Vol. 

10, No. 9, pp. 2960-2970, Sept. 2011. 

65 

O. Simeone, O. Somekh, E. Erkip, H. V. Poor and S. 

Shamai (Shitz), “Robust Communication via 

Decentralized Processing with Unreliable Backhaul 

Links,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 7, 

pp. 4187-4201, July 2011. 

O. Simeone, E. Erkip and S. Shamai (Shitz), “On 

Codebook Information for Interference Relay 

Channels With Out-of-Band Relaying,” IEEE Trans. 

Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp.2880-2888, May 


O. Sahin, O. Simeone and E. Erkip, “Interference 

Channel with an Out-of-Band Relay,” IEEE Trans. 

Inform. Theory, Vol.57, No.5, pp. 2746-2764, May 


R. Di Taranto, P. Popovski, O. Simeone and H. 

Yomo, “Efficient Spectrum Leasing via Randomized 

Silencing of Secondary Users,” IEEE Trans. Wireless 

Commun., Vol. 9, No. 12, pp. 3739-3749, Dec. 2010. 

O. Somekh, O. Simeone, H. V. Poor and S. Shamai 

(Shitz), “Cellular Systems with Non-Regenerative 

Relaying and Cooperative Base Stations,” IEEE Trans. 

Wireless Commun., Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 2654-2663, 

Aug. 2010. 

O. Simeone, E. Erkip and S. Shamai (Shitz), “Robust 

Transmission and Interference Management for 

Femtocells with Unreliable Network Access,” IEEE 

Journ. Selected Areas Commun., Vol. 28, No. 9, pp. 

1469-1478, Dec. 2010. 

D. Gesbert, S. Hanly, H. Huang, S. Shamai (Shitz), O. 

Simeone and W. Yu, “Multi-Cell MIMO Cooperative 

Networks: A New Look at Interference,” IEEE Journal 

Selected Areas Commun., Vol. 28, No. 9, pp. 1380- 

1408, Dec. 2010. 

D. Gündüz, O. Simeone, A. J. Goldsmith, H. V. Poor, 

S. Shamai (Shitz), “Multiple Multicasts with the Help 

of a Relay,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, Vol. 56, No. 12, 

pp. 6142-6158, Dec. 2010. 

L. Tsybeskov, V.B. Kamenev, A.A. Sirendko, J.P. 

McCaffrey and D.J. Lockwood, “Strain-induced 

Lateral Self-Organization in Si/SiO2 Nanostructures,” 

Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, No. 1, Art No. 

013105, 2010. 

D.J. Lockwood and L. Tsybeskov, “Self-assembled 

Silicon-germanium Nanostructures for CMOS 

Compatible Light Emitters,” Physica Status Solidi © 

Current Topics in Solid State Physics, Vol. 8, No. 9, 

pp. 2870-2874, 2011. 

D.J. Lockwood and L. Tsybeskov, “Threedimensional 

Silicon-germanium Nanostructures for 

CMOS-compatible Light Emitters,” Nanotechnology 

for Electronics, Photonics, and Renewable Energy, 

Nanostructure Science and Technology, pp. 41-84, 

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7454-9_2, 2010.

H. Hu, M. C. Zhou and Z. Li, “Low-Cost High- 

Performance Supervision in Ratio-Enforced 

Automated Manufacturing Systems Using Timed Petri 

Nets,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and 

Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 933-944, Oct. 2010. 

G. Liu, C. Jiang, and M. C. Zhou, “Two Simple 

Deadlock Prevention Policies for S3PR Based on Key 

resource/operation-place Pairs,” IEEE Transactions on 

Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 4, 

pp. 945-957, Oct. 2010. 

J.L. Xu, W. Su, and M. C. Zhou, "Distributed 

Automatic Modulation Classification With Multiple 

Sensors," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 

1779 - 1785, Nov. 2010. 

Y-S Huang, Y-S. Weng. and M. C. Zhou, "Critical 

Scenarios and Their Identification in Parallel Railroad 

Level Crossing Traffic Control Systems," IEEE Trans. 

on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 11, No. 4, 

pp. 968-977, Dec. 2010. 

P. Xiong, C. Pu, and M. C. Zhou, “Protocol-Level 

Service Composition Mismatches: A Petri Net Siphon 

Based Solution,” International Journal of Web 

Services Research, 7(4), 1-20, October-December 


K. Xing, M. C. Zhou, F. Wang, H. Liu, and F. Tian 

“Resource Transition Circuits and Siphons for 

Deadlock Control of Automated Manufacturing 

Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and 

Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans, 41(1), 74- 

84, Jan. 2011. 

N. Wu, F. Chu, C. Chu, and M. C. Zhou, “Petri Net- 

Based Scheduling of Single-Arm Cluster Tools with 

Reentrant Atomic Layer Deposition Processes,” IEEE 

Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 

8(1), pp. 42-55, Jan. 2011. 

N. Wu, F. Chu, C. Chu, and M. C. Zhou, 

“Schedulability Analysis of Short-Term Scheduling 

for Crude Oil Operations in Refinery With Oil 

Residency Time and Charging-Tank-Switch-Overlap 

Constraints,” IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and 

Engineering, 8(1), pp. 190-204, Jan. 2011. 

N. Q. Wu and M. C. Zhou, "Intelligent Token Petri 

Nets for Modeling and Control of Reconfigurable 

Automated Manufacturing Systems With Dynamical 

Changes," Transactions of the Institute of 

Measurement and Control, 33(1), pp. 9-29, February 


M. Hou, H. Zhu, M. C. Zhou, and G. R. Arrabito, 

“Optimizing Operator-Agent Interaction in Intelligent 

Adaptive Interface Design: A Conceptual 

Framework,” IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and 

Cybernetics: Part C, 41(2), pp. 161-178, Mar. 2011. 

66 

Hu, H., M. C. Zhou and Z. Li, “Supervisor Design to 

Enforce Production Ratio and Liveness Using Petri 

Nets,” IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and 

Cybernetics-Part A, 41(2), pp. 201-212, March 2011. 

Z. Ming and M. C. Zhou, "Impact of Zero-Voltage 

Notches on Outputs of Soft-switching Pulse Width 

Modulation Converters," IEEE Transactions on 

Industrial Electronics, 54(6), pp. 2345-2354, June 


J.L. Xu, W. Su, and M. C. Zhou, “Likelihood Ratio 

Approaches to Automatic Modulation Classification,” 

IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part 

C, 41(4), pp. 455–469, July 2011. 

Z. W. Wang, M. C. Zhou, G. Slabaugh, J. Zhai, and 

T. Fang, "Automatic Detection of Bridge Deck 

Condition from Ground Penetrating Radar Images," 

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and 

Engineering, 8(3), pp. 633–640, July 2011. 

H. Zhu, and M. C. Zhou, “Efficient Role Transfer 

Based on Kuhn-Munkres Algorithm,” accepted by 

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics- 

-Part A: Systems and Humans, Dec. 2010. 

H. Hu, M. C. Zhou and Z. Li, “Liveness and Ratioenforcing 

Supervision of Automated Manufacturing 

Systems Using Petri Nets,” accepted by IEEE 

Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part 

A: Systems and Humans, Jan. 12, 2011. 

H. Hu, M. C. Zhou and Z. Li, “Deadlock-free Control 

of AMS with Flexible Routes and Assembly 

Operations Using Petri Nets,” accepted by IEEE 


A: Systems and Humans, Feb. 2011. 

Z. Li, G. Liu, H.-M. Hanisch, and M. C. Zhou, 

“Deadlock Prevention Based on Structure Reuse of 

Petri Net Supervisors for Flexible Manufacturing 

systems,” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, 

Man, and Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans, 

Feb. 2011. 

H. Hu, M. C. Zhou and Z. Li, “Supervisor 

Optimization for Deadlock Resolution in Automated 

Manufacturing Systems With Petri Nets,” accepted by 

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and 

Engineering, Feb. 2011. 

N. Wu, F. Chu, S. Mammar, and M. C. Zhou, “Petri 

Net Modeling of Cooperation Behavior of Driver and 

Co-Pilot in Advanced Driving Assistance Systems,” 

accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent 

Transportation Systems, Feb. 2011. 

Y. Chen, Z. Li and M. C. Zhou, “Behaviorally 

Optimal and Structurally Simple Liveness-enforcing 

Supervisors of Flexible Manufacturing Systems,”

accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and 

Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans, June 2011. 

Z. Li, N. Wu, and M. C. Zhou, "Deadlock Control of 

Automated Manufacturing Systems Based on Petri 

Nets - A Literature Review," accepted by IEEE 


C: Applications and Reviews, July 2011. 

H. Zhu and M. C. Zhou, “Group Role Assignment via 

a Kuhn-Munkres Algorithm-based Solution,” accepted 

by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and 

Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans, Aug. 


Keyi Xing, Libin Han, and Mengchu Zhou, 

“Deadlock-Free Genetic Scheduling Algorithm for 

Automated Manufacturing Systems Based on 

Deadlock Control Policy,” Accepted by IEEE 

Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part 

B, Sept. 22, 2011. 

Y. Fang, F. Chu, S. Mammar and M. C. Zhou, 

“Optimal Lane Reservation in Transportation 

Network,” Accepted by IEEE Transactions on 

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sept. 2011. 

S. Wang, J. Hu and S.G. Ziavras, “Replicating Tag 

Entries for Reliability Enhancement in Cache Tag 

Arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale 

Integration Systems. Accepted for publication, 

January 2011. 

I. Sajid, M.M. Ahmed and S.G. Ziavras, “Novel 

Pipelined Architecture for Efficient Evaluation of the 

Square Root Using a Modified Non-Restoring 

Algorithm,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 

accepted for publication, September 2010. 

N.B. Guinde and S.G. Ziavras, “Efficient Hardware 

Support for Pattern Matching in Network Intrusion 

Detection,” Computers and Security (The official 

journal of Technical Committee 11 on Computer 

Security of the International Federation of Information 

Processing), Volume 29, No. 7, October 2010, pp. 

756-769. 

S. Motahari, S.G. Ziavras and Q. Jones, “Online 

Anonymity Protection in Computer-Mediated 

Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Information 

Forensics & Security, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2010, 

pp. 570-580. 

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B. Ahmadi and O. Simeone, “Robust Coding for 

Lossy Computing with Receiver-Side Observation 

Costs,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on 

Information Theory (ISIT 2011), July 31-Aug. 5, Saint 

Petersburg, Russia, 2011. 

M. Li, O. Simeone and A. Yener, “Leveraging Strictly 

Causal State Information at the Encoders for Multiple 

Access Channels,” in Proc. IEEE International 

Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2011), July 

31-Aug. 5, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2011. 

P. Castiglione, O. Simeone, E. Erkip and T. Zemen, 

“Energy-Neutral Source-Channel Coding in Energy- 

Harvesting Wireless Sensors,” in Proc. IEEE 

WiOpt’11, May 9-13, Princeton, NJ, 2011. 

M. Li, O. Simeone and A. Yener, “Message and State 

Cooperation in a Relay Channel When the Relay Has 

Strictly Causal State Information,” in Proc. 

Information Theory and Applications Workshop, Feb. 

6-11, San Diego, CA, 2011. 

N. Michelusi, O. Simeone, M. Levorato, P. Popovski 

and M. Zorzi, “Optimal Cognitive Transmission 

Exploiting Redundancy in the Primary ARQ process,” 

in Proc. Information Theory and Applications 

Workshop, Feb. 6-11, San Diego, CA, 2011. 

M. Rossi, A. M. Tulino, O. Simeone and A. M. 

Haimovich, “Nonconvex Utility Maximization in 

Gaussian MISO Broadcast and Interference 

Channels,” in Proc. International Conference on 

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 

2011), May 22-27, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. 

K. Lee, O. Simeone, C.-B. Chae and J. Kang, 

“Spectrum Leasing via Cooperation for Enhanced 

Physical-Layer Secrecy,” in Proc. IEEE International 

Conference on Communications (ICC2011), June 5-9, 

2011, Kyoto, Japan. 

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N. Lee, C.-B. Chae, O. Simeone, J. Kang, “On the 

Optimization of Two-way AF MIMO Relay Channel 

with Beamforming,” in Proc. Asilomar Asilomar 

Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 

Monterey, CA, Nov. 7-10, 2010. 

D. Chiarotto, O. Simeone and M. Zorzi, “Spectrum 

Leasing via Cooperative Opportunistic Routing,” in 

Proc. Asilomar Asilomar Conference on Signals, 

Systems, and Computers, Monterey, CA, Nov. 7-10, 


P. Popovski and O. Simeone, “Protocol Coding for 

Two-Way Communications with Half-Duplex 

Constraints,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, 

Miami, FL, Dec. 6-10, 2010. 

T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone, “Outage and Diversity- 

Multiplexing Trade-off Analysis of Closed and Open- 

Access Femtocells,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 

2010, Miami, FL, Dec. 6-10, 2010. 

D. Chiarotto, O. Simeone and M. Zorzi, “Throughput 

and Energy Efficiency of Opportunistic Routing with 

type-I HARQ in Linear Multihop Networks,” in Proc. 

IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, FL, Dec. 6-10, 


F. Iannello, O. Simeone and U. Spagnolini, 

“Dynamic Framed-ALOHA for Energy-Constrained 

Wireless Sensor Networks with Energy Harvesting,” 

in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, FL, Dec. 

6-10, 2010. 

H. Hu, M. C. Zhou, and Z. Li, “Deadlock Resolution 

Method for Automated Manufacturing Systems Using 

Petri Net Models,” in Proc. of 2010 IEEE International 

Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 

722-727, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 11-13, 2010. 

J. S. Choi and M. C. Zhou, “Performance Analysis of 

ZigBee-based Body Sensor Networks,” in Proc. of 

2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man 

and Cybernetics, pp. 943-948, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 


W. Guo, W. M. Healy, and M. C. Zhou, 

“Performance Measurement and Analysis of Low Data 

Rate Wireless Communication under Interference 

Sources in Buildings,” in Proc. of 2010 IEEE 

International Conference on Systems, Man and 

Cybernetics, pp. 944-949, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 11- 

13, 2010. 

Y. X. Sun, N. Q. Wu, and M. C. Zhou, “Closed-Form 

Solution for Cycle Time of Revisiting Process in 

Single-Arm Cluster Tool Scheduling with Atomic 

Layer Deposition,” in Proc. 2011 IEEE Int. Conf. on

Networking, Sensing and Control, pp. 383-388, Delft, 

The Netherlands, April 11-13, 2011. 

N. Q. Wu, F. Chu, S. Mammar, and M. C. Zhou, 

“Interaction Behavior Modeling of Advanced Driving 

Assistance Systems by Using Petri Nets,” in Proc. 

2011 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and 

Control, pp. 145-150, Delft, The Netherlands, April 


G. J. Liu, C. J. Jiang, and M. C. Zhou, “Improved 

Condition for Controllability of Strongly Dependent 

Strict Minimal Siphons in Petri Nets,” in Proc. 2011 

IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, 

pp. 365-370, Delft, The Netherlands, April 11-13, 


W. V. Shi and M. C. Zhou, “Recent Advances of 

Sensors for Pacemakers,” in Proc. 2011 IEEE Int. 

Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, pp. 526- 

531, Delft, The Netherlands, April 11-13, 2011. 

P. Wang, Z. Ding, C. Jiang, and M. Zhou, "Web 

Service Composition Techniques in a Health Care 

Service Platform," in Proc. of 2011 IEEE International 

Conference on Web Services, pp. 355-362, 

Washington D.C., July 4-9, 2011. 

Y. Qiao, N. Wu, and M. C. Zhou, "Modeling and 

Analysis of Dual-Arm Cluster Tools for Wafer 

Fabrication with Revisiting," in Proc. of 2011 IEEE 

International Conference on Automation Science and 

Engineering, pp. 90-95, Trieste, Italy, August 24-27, 


INVITED LECTURES 

Ali Abdi was invited to give a talk and chair the 

session “System Biology in Drug Discovery,” by the 

Organizing Committee of World DNA and Genome 

Day (WDD), Dalian, China. 

Ali Abdi was invited to give a talk at the European 

Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 

Rome, Italy. 

Ali Abdi was invited to present a talk on his fault 

diagnosis engineering work in molecular signaling 

networks, at the EPS Global Protein and Peptide 

Summit, Shenzhen, China. 

Ali Abdi was invited as a speaker to discuss and 

analyze Novel Approaches of Bioavailability & 

Bioequivalence Studies, at the 2nd World Congress on 

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S. Wang, M. C. Zhou and C. Wang, "Extracting All 

Minimal Siphons from Maximal Unmarked Siphons in 

Manufacturing-Oriented Petri Nets," in Proc. of 2011 

IEEE International Conference on Automation 

Science and Engineering, pp. 399-404, Trieste, Italy, 

August 24-27, 2011. 

A. Ratnakar and M. C. Zhou, "An Ultrasound System 

for Tumor Detection in Soft Tissues Using Low 

Transient Pulse," in Proc. of 2011 IEEE International 

Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 

pp. 684-689, Trieste, Italy, August 24-27, 2011. 

S.F. Beldianu and S.G. Ziavras, “On-Chip Vector 

Coprocessor Sharing for Multicores,” The 19th 

Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, 

Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Ayia 

Napa, Cyprus, February 9-11, 2011, pp. 431-438 

(IEEE Computer Society publication). 

N.B. Guinde, S.G. Ziavras and R. Rojas-Cessa, 

“Efficient Packet Classification on FPGAs also 

Targeting at Manageable Memory Consumption,” 4th 

International Conference on Signal Processing and 

Communication Systems, Gold Coast, Australia, 

December 13-15, 2010. 

I. Sajid, S.G. Ziavras and M.M Ahmed, “Hardware- 

Based Speed Up of Face Recognition Towards Real- 

Time Performance,” 13 th Euromicro Conference on 

Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and 

Tools, Lille, France, September 1-3, 2010, pp. 763- 

770 (IEEE Computer Society publication). 

Bioavailability & Bioequivalence - Pharmaceutical 

R&D Summit, Las Vegas, USA. 

Ali Abdi was invited to speak at the 1st World Drug 

Discovery Online Conference. 

Ali Abdi was invited to give a talk at the International 

Conference & Exhibition on Pharmaceutical 

Regulatory Affairs, Baltimore, USA. 

Ali Akansu, Plenary talk on Electronic Trading: A 

Data Intensive Discovery, International Conference on 

Mathematical Finance and Economics, Istanbul, 

Turkey, July 6, 2011. 

Ali Akansu, Tutorial on Electronic Trading and 

Portfolio Optimization: A Signal Processing 

Perspective, EUSIPCO European Signal Processing

Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 29, 2011 (with 

Prof. I. Pollak of Purdue University and Prof. F. Rubio 

of The Hong Kong University of Science and 

Technology). 

Nirwan Ansari, “Next Generation Broadband Access: 

Passive Optical Networks,” tutorial, IEEE 

International Conference on Communications 

ICC2011, Kyoto, Japan, June 5, 2011. 

Nirwan Ansari, “On Mitigating TCP Incast in Data 

Center Networks,” City University of Hong Kong, 

April 18, 2011. 

Durgamadhab Misra, “High-K Dielectrics on High- 

Mobility Substrates,” IEEE Mini-Colloquium, 

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, April 29, 


Durgamadhab Misra, “A Successful Faculty 

Member: Essential Components,” Workshop for 

Engineering Scholars, International Symposium on 

Electronic Systems Design – 2010, Bhubaneswar, 

India, December 20-22, 2010. 

Durgamadhab Misra, IEEE EDS Distinguished 

Lecture, “CMOS Nanoelectronics and 

Nanotechnology Evolution,” Gandhi Institute of 

Technology and Management, IEEE EDS 

Bhubaneswar, India, December 18, 2010. 

Durgamadhab Misra, Distinguished Lecture, 

“TiN/High-k Gate Stacks for CMOS: Reliability 

Issues,” SKP Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, 

IEEE EDS Chennai, India, December 16, 2010. 

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Durgamadhab Misra, “Faculty Success: Teaching 

Excellence,” Temple City Institute of Technology and 

Engineering, Khurda, India, December 14, 2010. 

Durgamadhab Misra, “How to be a Successful 

Faculty Member: Essential Components,” BRCM 

College of Engineering and Technology, Bahal, 

Haryana, India, December 10, 2010. 

Roberto Rojas-Cessa, World Wide Cyber Security 

and Mobility, "Trust Management Schemes for 

Bouding of Virus Proliferation in P2P Networks," 

IEEE Communications Society of Princeton Central- 

South Jersey, Princeton, NJ. (July 26, 2011). 

Y. Q. Shi, “How To Do Research,” Wuhan 

University, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, June 

13, 2011. 

Y. Q. Shi, “Digital Data Hiding, Forensics and 

Security,” Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang 

University, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China, 

December 30, 2010. 

Y. Q. Shi, 2.5-hr invited speech, “How To Do 

Research,” Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 

China, December 27, 2010. 

Sotirios Ziavras, Invited Talk, “Multicore-based 

Vector Coprocessor Sharing for Performance-Energy 

Gains and High Resource Utilization,” Joint 

University Colloquium & Greek High-Performance 

Computing National Network & IEEE Computer 

Branch, University of Patras, Greece, June 29, 2011. 

Department Administration and Committees 

Leonid Tsybeskov Chair 

Durgamadhab Misra Associate Chair for Graduate Studies 

Marek Sosnowski Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies 

The Promotion and Tenure Committee is responsible for 

conducting a formal review of new members to the 

teaching faculty, discussing each case of non-renewal of 

contract, providing each tenure track faculty member with 

recent performance and finally making recommendations to 

the Institute Promotion and Tenure Committee 

recommendations on promotion and tenure. Tsybeskov 

(Chair), Akansu, Ansari, Bar-Ness, Carpinelli, Cornely, 

Dhawan, Friedland, Grebel, Haddad, Haimovich, Klapper, 

Misra, Niver, Savir, Shi, Sohn, Sosnowski, Whitman, 

Ziavras,and Zhou. 

The Strategic Planning Committee is responsible for 

identifying the goals that, if achieved, will significantly 

enhance the future success of the ECE Department in both 

its educational programs and its research programs. 

Educational program success is measured by the 

effectiveness of the department in providing its students 

with relevant courses and tracks, and related educational 

experiences, that enable students to achieve their career 

goals; and which are produced and delivered in a costeffective 

and efficient manner. Research program success is 

measured by the quality of the research (as judged by peers 

in the same field of research), and the observable impact of 

the research; and by the quantity of external research

funding obtained, that can be used to support graduate 

research assistants and to conduct the research. It is 

composed of seven working groups: Misra (Chair and 

PhD Program and Student Enrollment); Ansari (MS 

Program and Student Enrollment); Hou (Undergraduate 

Programs and Student Enrollment); Carpinelli 

(Undergraduate Research Experience, Co-Op and 

Internship Programs); Grebel (Research Programs, Focus 

Areas and Faculty Hiring; Tsybeskov (Industry Relations); 

and Whitman (Faculty and Staff Development Programs). 

The Undergraduate Affairs and Curriculum Committee 

is responsible for assessing, revising, and improving the 

curricula of the Electrical Engineering and in Computer 

Engineering undergraduate programs. The committee 

approves proposed changes to all ECE courses and sets 

procedures and advising rules for undergraduate students. 

There is a main committee consisting of eight members: 

Sosnowski (Chair), Carpinelli, Hou, Hubbi, Niver, 

Tsybeskov and Whitman. There are five subcommittees: 

Honors Program Subcommittee: Hou (Chair), Friedland 

and Haimovich; ABET Subcommittee: Sosnowski (Chair), 

Carpinelli, Haddad, How, and Hubbi; Program and 

Curriculum Assessment: ABET Subcommittee: Carpinelli, 

Hou, Boodhoo, Haddad and Sosnowski; Undergraduate 

Laboratory Facilities Subcommittee: Sosnowski (Chair), 

Abdi, and Hubbi; Undergraduate Research Experience: 

Carpinelli (Chair), Friedland, Simeone, Misra and Ansari. 

The Graduate Affairs and Curriculum Committee is 

responsible for the governance of activities related to 

graduate programs in the department. The main group of 

this committee is composed of a chair and leaders of the 

five focus areas of the Department: Misra (Chair), Abdi 

(Commmunications, Signal Processing and Microwaves); 

Rojas-Cessa (Computer Networking); Sosnowski 

(Electronic and Photonic Devices); Ziavras (Computer 

Architecture and Systems;) and Zhou (Intelligent Systems). 

There are three subcommittees: Seminars Subcommittee: 

Ansari (Chair), Ge, Grebel, and Williams (resource); 

Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships Subcommittee: 

Haddad (Chair), Niver and Ziavras; Research 

Subcommittee: Grebel (Chair), Akansu, Ansari, Bar-Ness, 

and Tsybeskov. 

The External Affairs and Outreach Committee is 

responsible for undergraduate and graduate recruitment and 

departmental publicity. This committee is composed of a 

main group: Personick (Chair), Ge, and Zhou and two 

subcommittees: Undergraduate Recruitment Subcommittee: 

Hou (Chair), Abdi, Ge and Boodhoo (resource); Graduate 

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Recruitment Subcommittee: Misra (Chair), Ansari, 

Friedland and Simeone. 

The Faculty and Staff Awards Committee is responsible 

for identifying proper nominees and nominators, evaluating 

all the nominees, and making recommendation of the 

candidates for various teaching awards. Haddad (Chair), 

Niver, Savir and Zhou. 

The Faculty Council Committee is composed of a single 

member whose responsibility is to attend the NJIT Faculty 

Council meetings as a representative of the ECE 

Department and to report back to the Department on those 

meetings. Akansu. 

The PSA Committee is composed of a single member 

whose responsibility is to attend the NJIT Faculty Union 

Meetings and to report back to the ECE Department on 

those meetings. Hubbi. 

The IEEE Student Advisor Committee is composed of a 

single member whose responsibility is to advise the IEEE 

North Jersey Student Chapter at NJIT. Feknous. 

The HKN Student Advisor Committee is composed of a 

single member whose responsibility is to advise the NJIT 

ECE Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society. Sohn. 

The Library Liaison Committee is composed of a single 

member whose responsibility is to collaborate with the 

NJIT Library Departmental Liaison who is devoted to the 

specific needs of the ECE Department to ensure that the 

information resources as well as information literacy 

instructional needs of the departmental programs are met. 

Tsybeskov. 

The Committee on Committees is responsible for 

assigning faculty/staff membership to various ECE 

department committees. Tsybeskov (Chair), Bar-Ness, 

Carpinelli, Rojas-Cessa, and Sosnowski. 

The Faculty Search Committee is responsible for 

conducting searches for new potential faculty members. 

Ansari (Chair), Grebel, Haimovich, Tsybeskov, and 

Whitman. 

The Chair Search Committee is responsible for 

coordinating the search process for a permanent 

chairperson for the ECE Department. Carpinelli (Chair), 

Hou, Zhou, and Ziavras.

In Memoriam… 

Dr. Timothy Chang 

ECE and NJIT mourn the loss of Distinguished Professor Timothy N. Chang, who passed away on Tuesday, February 1, 2011. 

He was 52. 

During his nearly 20 years at NJIT, Tim was honored for both his research in the lab and his teaching in the classroom in the area 

of electrical and computer engineering. He was a leader of the Personalized Weapon Technology Program funded by the 

National Institute for Justice, the US State Department, and the US Army to successfully develop handguns that are electronically 

enabled to recognize authorized users and record all firing activities. More recently, and highly noteworthy, was his work in 

biomedical applications, including his patent of the Smart Pin—a novel liquid dispensing system utilized in molecular biology 

research that is capable of producing micron-size droplets without contacting the target surface. 

In Fall 2010 Tim was promoted to Distinguished Professor and received NJIT's Excellence in Research Award during at the 

university's Convocation ceremony. The holder of many patents, Tim received a Special Award at the 22nd Annual New Jersey 

Inventors Hall of Fame Awards ceremony in October 2010. He was a Senior Fellow of the Society of International Electrical and 

Electronic Engineers. 

He is survived by his mother; his wife Daphne and his children Norbert and Naomi; brothers Victor and Julian (Doris); a sister 

Charling (William) and his niece Sara. 

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Dr. Arthur B. Glaser 

ECE and NJIT mourn the loss of Dr. Arthur B. Glaser, University Lecturer in the ECE Department who passed away on Sunday, 


Dr. Glaser was born in the Bronx NY, went to the City College of New York for both his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical 

Engineering and completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. After graduation he joined Bell 

Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he worked for over thirty years. Dr. Glaser brought with him the accumulation of three 

decades of knowledge in circuit design, three patents, and teaching experience gained from both Rutgers and Columbia 

Universities when he joined NJIT in 2002 as a Special Lecturer. 

Dr. Glaser loved to teach. He was often assigned courses at the 200 level of ECE, and worked hard to provide the foundation 

upon which the students would build for a successful career. He loved teaching upper level courses as well, where his expertise 

in chip design was allowed to shine. A man of humility, few knew he wrote a book that became a classic on the subject of 

Integrated Circuit Engineering. He would often be seen working long hours grading exam papers or providing help to students. 

Art had many friends in the Department. He was a gentleman who was always soft spoken and polite. He will be sorely missed. 

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